I kinda started wondering why everyone’s patience was wearing thin (myself included) so I went through the chapters to see when the last time the two were truly together.
It was chapter 14.
9 out of 23 chapters ago.
On top of that, it was released over a year ago from the posting of this chapter, so readers have been waiting an irl year for this couple to be reunited. And this isn’t like complaining about the lack of romance progress in My Dress-Up Darling. There, the cosplay is the A plot and romance is the B plot, but here, the A plot is the romance. People go into a romance manga with the expectation of seeing interactions and developments between the leading couple, so when over a third of that manga is spent with that couple being forced apart, it‘s no wonder there’s a strain on the audience’s tolerance