@RubyG8396 because that's boring?
Why couldn't Light just be nice and not play judge and executioner? why couldn't Elim Garak just be a simple tailor? why is Alan Shore a lawyer who blackmails and bribes rather than just playing by the rules? why is Kurumi everyone's favorite character?
Who wants to read a story where everyone is just nice and good and there is no conflict? There's no story left.
Also, why am I never seeing these complaints in male–female love stories? Why are male–male, female–female and female–male love stories always full in the comment sections about how the love interest is raping the protagonist but I'm never seeing this complaint about the typical male dense harem protagonist that gets raped by all the female harem members but “
omagawd dude, yuri
/yaoi
/syouzyo
is always so rapey, whyyy?”.
edit: Honestly, I think I know the answer: the complainers are male self-inserters and the three other configurations don't satisfy their self-insertion phantasies, and they don't complain when it do.
@elinertia42 Agreed, the problem is that Alicia simply does not pass as male — we're supposed to be believe that the entire school buys that he's a male, but it's not convincing.
It would be better if he were more androgynous and actually passed as male like
Ouran High School Host Club, which was an actual female-lead boy's love series because Haruhi actually did convincingly appear male when cross-dressing. Alicia's face is too feminine.