Slop exists to balance out the good stuff. Slop exists so the good stuff can shine. If only good stuff exists with no slop to balance it out, if all you've read is only the good ones, you'll get numbed to it and you'll eventually yearn for the slop.
I'm gonna guess the dude would catch that Godspeed and parry Nito, if we're following the typical Manga trope. Well, unless I'm proven wrong. Nito seriously need to upgrade his harem skills.
I hope MC's indifference towards the crew members improve. 'Second' in "Moto Sekai Ichi" actually acts proper after his relationship with the girls around him advances. This MC, he slept with that elf and the elf wasn't really subtle with her attachment to him in the recent chapters. MC however...