This is just another example: When a mangaka writes a story with a light-haired MC and an estranged love interest, it's the love interest who suffers and has to be saved by the mc who is firmly in control of her life and their relationship. There is no reversal as at the end of this story.
When a mangaka writes a story about a dark-haired MC and light-haired love interest it's the MC who ends up suffering and getting saved by the love interest.
It's a strange kind of misogyny.
What would be so bad about just reversing the formula of the Light-haired MC and the dark-haired love interest?
Why is it so hard for a writer to write a story where a dark-haired girl is in full control of her life and the relationship and a light-haired girl suffers and needs to be saved by the dark-haired girl?
What is this obsessive need to portray dark-haired females as helpless toys of the world and their emotions and light-haired females as always in control?
For variety's sake alone it is highly necessary to put an end to this practice.
It gets so bad that Hikawa doesn't even show any emotion for Natsuki, making it rather hard to see this as a love story.