FL still has her first significant growth arc a bit down the road from here. I promise she gets much better than just vaguely but completely entrusting herself to him.
Time to binge it again. (Seriously, I'm in double-digits here and almost that many times through the licensed physical releases. Even got the S1 steelbook Blu-ray just for the bonus book -- though the bump in AV quality on the BD was pretty snazzy in its own right.)
BokuYaba did build an entire chapter (that became half an episode in the anime) around the same issue -- although it did subvert the trope just a little in the end -- but it's a trope that truly isn't explored often enough.
On the plus side, this is about the pace BokuYaba moved at.
On the minus side, it was in fact about ninety chapters before the couple there made it happen officially. (Not that they didn't already know it was mutual ages before that but, still.)
I get this sensibility, but don't discount the effect of Kano having been a playful tease for years prior to this story before getting serious...while still looking for all the world like the same playful tease (only maybe a tiny bit lewder). Yuito has real reason not to take her seriously --...
I'm pretty sure linking is frowned upon here, but the folks at KDT have the first five volumes on their novel TL site (and are completely up-to-date for supporters).
Most everything between winter break and the end of the spring term is LN-original. Maki takes on a challenge in the LN that the WN doesn't require him to. The arc has some differences regarding the .
Both are very good takes on the same story and are heavily recommended.