this is definitely a lewd joke taking advantage of a euphemism in Japanese (which is hardly ever used straight anymore; daku as 'hug' has been replaced with dakishimeru to avoid confusion, but Fern used daku)
This feels like the manga equivalent of 'man generously gives 2000$ to save a hundred orphans from the orphan-crushing machine!' news articles - i.e. celebrating a small-scale solution without questioning the massive problem that necessitated it
Is Takase a pretty awful person who's not managing his relationships well? Yes, absolutely.
Is this a comedy manga where real-world consequences probably don't apply? Also yes, absolutely.
I imagine it's a specific style of poofy curled hair that was popular worldwide in like the 80s, which even here in the US is 'old person hair' since some people never moved on from it
This seems like the whole thing boils down to unshared expectations. The bakery lady is fine with leaving a bit later, and so she expects everyone else to be fine with leaving later. She doesn't realise that what doesn't bother her does bother some other people.