I understand this point, but I think the bigger problem is that he is unrelatable, cowardly and ineffective/relying on others to carry him too much. The MC feels like S1 Deku, cowardly, but is lacking the brains that made Deku an interesting & effective character (the boy throughs away the cellphone.) I guess that because MC are usually suppose to be audience inserts the people get pissed off when the MC does something unreasonably dumb. Its only in situations this extreme do i relate to him.it amazes me that people act like smart assess about characters being scaredy cats when most of them would piss their pants in similar situations
not to mention how out of his league all this is, the fact that he still goes along with this is admirable, if futile for now
and characters are supposed to have flaws, if they don't then they have no reason to overcome themselves and be a better person,
like the asshole friend
it makes sense what the author is going for