Unfortunately - In the real world - when you build and run up a Sepic or a Cuk, you find that the coupled version is harder to stabilise than the un-coupled, if you write the complete transfer function for the power stage (now with mutual inductances, and magnetising inductances in the transformer/choke), and not a simplified version, you find there are more terms in the transfer function and the net effect is more phase delay making stable control harder to get - esp at light loads/no load where the RHP's are lowest in freq.