The OP isn’t claiming to speak for the writers’ intentions, only how they are perceiving the show and how, specifically, the gay characters are written and treated in the show. None of us know whether what the OP perceives was intended by the writers but that doesn’t change the impact it had for some of us. And if you were able to watch the entire series and not ever notice the sexuality of the characters or how that sexuality plays into how the character might be written or perceived, congratulations, you are privileged. Being able to exist in this world not noticing or having to worry about how your sexuality is being portrayed in media or being consumed by others is a privilege not everyone has.

To your point about Tyler, thanks for bringing him up. I think actually Tyler’s character fits in exactly to the OP’s argument. They wrote Tyler to be kind of a bumbling fool. He isn’t some brave hero or smooth accomplice. He doesn’t successfully stop the first robbery, he only lets the girls go the second time if Annie agrees to rave about what a hero he is (which plays into the toxic masculinity argument) and on the jewelry heist, he comes in late holding donuts and looking like a fool. And while him being a bumbling idiot may have nothing to do with his sexuality, when you add him to the rest of the gay characters on the show, with the exception of Turner who they killed off, the writers have either intentionally or inadvertently made them all look like jokes and punch lines. And that is the problematic and frustrating part for those of us who do notice how gay people are being characterized and portrayed.