@Chaosfox I'm saying this type of friction is "pointless". That is, other than to piss off the readers. Which it does, apparently.
In terms of functions in the story, all it can possibly do is serve as a "call to action" for the cowardly MC, but since this is such a Jap story, which seeks to "live a simple and quiet life", what sort of monomyth-type of heroic tale do you think will actually happen here? And even if that's the case, it's overblown and over the top. I hold that its main functions is to just rile up the readers, which, again, it accomplished. But given my history with webnovels, that is something that is eerily simple to do.
@sjmcc13
Same comment, but: "Isekai" is a generic term by now. Get used to it.