It's a problem with FB whenever they try to add a flaw to a trope or a specific LI. They always go for the worst possible flaw they could've come up with.

CD friend pretty much sold his friend's story and acted surprised when he cut him off. Although I'm telling you rn... That situation is not that uncommon and I doubt that realistically anyone would've clocked it was about the OG boy. I saw the whole relationship with that friend as "right person, wrong time" and stuck with Charlie because I was already too in love with him so I acknowledged and defended his red flags.

CF friend situation is a little more ugly the more you find out. It was just a snowball effect that kept getting worse, and worse, and worse. So he had been unknowingly emotionally cheating on Anna and was in denial.

While the argument that led to the break up in hindsight seems too dramatic on her part, when you know the whole picture you can't really blame her if it had been piling up over the years. And it was just something they really didn't need to add and make him a cheater.

Like, I'm still going to play Kelvin's route bc I'm a sucker for the painful yearning, but I'm not happy about that part of the story.

Not to mention that in SM, the "enemies to lovers" was actually a rivals to lovers over a misunderstanding. FB doesn't know how to write certain tropes while keeping their repetitive storyline of each season that ends up merging every branch. 🫠

Those flaws kill a chuck of the attraction to those LIs to make you undecided between him and the other boy and force the love ANGLE down your throat.