You don't understand just how much a cheat code main character energy is until you read a romcom with MCs who have absolutely none.
Like, Kuroi understood completely he was staring a handholding flag dead in the face, but he just couldn't execute. He just has all the natural smoothness of a pineapple, the stakes keep getting higher with every date they go on, and worse still, he is actually self-aware. There's no accidental rizz for him. It has to be intentional rizz, and that's really, really hard.
Such a strange phenomenon, linguistically, that two people who just keep scheduling dates with each other and stubbornly attending them aren't "dating" until they say they are, somehow.