Honestly, the progression feels believably natural to me though.
Yūta Miyamoto has always been an inherently kind person, his whole life spent having taken his parent's words to heart.
Yumi Asakawa, his girlfriend, tried to gaslight him in a ploy that she thought would turn him into a better...
The whole fiasco from before honestly wasn't that big of a deal; it only became that way because of the issue of portrayal. Author really didn't need to draw the blushing panel but chose to, and even then could've shown more clearly that it was only in Yutaka's thought bubble, as well as write...
Her parents divorcing shattered her world. She was young so it definitely affected her more harshly too. Just because she was unable to give her 100% for the auditions doesn't take away from the fact that she devoted a good chunk of her life to studying music.
I thought it was artistically...