Its like this movie scenes, where a strong muscled enemy grabbed the protag, but compared to hulk-smashing (they could easily) or breaking their neck, but they just shove them away to hurt them.
Plot armor.
JJK
there is this fight where Todo use clap-switchingteleport with MC to fight against 1 enemy.
Enemy is dumb.
Bc MC/Todo arent some kind of fire/water ghosts only vulnerable to their weaknesses but regular human bodies.
That means that a regular punch focused to one enemy would have worked...
https://chapmanganato.to/manga-bl1004768/chapter-1
but i think its also bc "gap moe" simply works for some reason on monkee brain of humans.
While a 1sided personality would look "boring".
Contrast bring color.
Ps : also writer lack writing skills and its ez to use it.
Also
1) Its annoyingly repeated too much
2) Its cringe often
3) Its just trying to excuse toxicity / shittiness of a character (just like tsundere are overboard, and a good correct tsundere is cute by mild pouting etc)
4) A good person will be more easily ignored bc of it
4.5) And it create this...