The main villain in this is one of the most shallow antagonists I have ever seen. He is literally evil for the sake of lols and the author wants me to take this seriously? And black and white morality is probably just about the most shallow trope in all of literature and the author seems to be making that a main theme here.
I guess the comments here are filled with the sorts of people who think "character depth" = "redemption" and just want to live out a fantasy where they torture and murder their middle school bullies, so that's probably the target audience, but...