My issue with the MC isn't really that he's weak. It's that he barely seems to have any redeeming qualities at all. Or rather, the few redeeming qualities he has seen to be continuously ignored in favor of him just being a pathetic, perverted, borderline rapey moron. The beginning was good. He was an unmotivated dude who just kinda existed, then he's presented with a crisis in his household and he steps up and does his best to resolve it. Same with his crush and with a few others. But the character really seems to start going downhill past any initial interaction he has with anyone. To the point that he becomes extremely unlikable extremely fast. Especially in how he deals with Estelle(who's a rather annoying character in their own right) and Atty. Playing through a good part of his interactions with them was extremely cringe. Even the "resolution" to those archs made me roll my eyes more than anything as he didn't really seem to grow or learn anything or face any real consequences. So it's a character who is initially flawed with plenty of room to grow, but that shows they will go out of their way to protect those he cares about, that then goes on to be the one violating those he supposedly cares about and facing little to no consequences for it and not really growing at all as a character.