It is another case of: "if you remove the male lead, the story becomes much better". That would remove all the silliness that revolves around FL playing dumb and the neverending misunderstanding that is so pointless and omnipresent that it actually hacks the pacing and prevents the story from actually taking flight. Remove all this, as well as 'manly effeminate' Yurien, and story finally starts to be endearing. Because all this get in the way. Bahara is all we need from a storytelling standpoint. All this with Yurien is just a sorry excuse for fan service geared towards middle school girls: when she reappeared, Yurien had to go through the fan-service motions and i am at a point where i start to skip these parts entirely. Admittedly, i am not the target for that, and this means i can't appreciate it at all. But more objectively speaking, this is obviously forced and made for the sole purpose of checking boxes. Even Yurien's chara design is the catchy stereotype of the effeminate male with 'cool' hair colour. Such a lazy and obvious bait... Yurien so far is a 'non-character'. There is nothing that defines him, beyond being the 'male lead love interest', and the 'cool guy, that has to be cooler than any other cool guy ever'.