The feeling is that the author has lost his way in his own work, he doesn't know how to progress.
in my opinion, he's regressed a lot; the MC and FMC barely progressed, full of bait because he doesn't know how to create a decent drama.
He included a third character (who is quite cool, by the way), just because, and everyone knows he's going to lose.
and now, apparently, a new male character? Not that I care, it was only one chapter, but it feels like a corrective