Multiple POV is tiring as hell.

[MintiLime]

*sweats profusely in newbie author with… two main characters, two close-to-main characters, and seven supporting cast members, with other minor characters appearing (six of which have names)*

Yes, I had to sit there and count

 

[Fang_Yuan]

That's why I make sure that even though I'm writing the story about a side character, in the end, it's still about the main character. Because in the end, side characters are just there for the main character.

 

[melchi]

I don't like it either. The fact is that a reader will always seek to assign a main character even if that is not the writers intention.

Even good multi main character stories I tend not to like. My co-worker recommended 'the blade itself' by joe Abercrombie and I dropped it after the 3rd main character reared his head.

I'm sure it is interesting how how things pan out with the diverse cast but I really didn't like how the original main character gets put on the back burner for sequential chapters so dropped it.
Also, having multi-MC is different than having a B-plot.

The doomsday book is a good example of this. While the heroine goes back in time to the 1300s and gets to have a first hand view of the black plague there is a bunch of stuff going on back in the normal time with her collogues.

They switch POV but the overall drama going on in the current time is all directly related to the MC's plight because she needs them to get back.

 

[Temple]

The problem is Lookism itself. Compare the early arcs to latest arcs. Those are completely different stories. Lookism wasn't supposed to be a multi pov story but was just one MC with side characters. The author wants to write other stories since it's been like almost a decade already? But he can't do it because Lookism makes money. And so, he writes his other ideas into Lookism, and it devolves into a nonsense structure.

 

[Chrono157]

I haven't read Lookism yet, but my general opinion of multiple perspectives is that I usually welcome it. It gives me a sense of how other characters view a situation that might be heavily different than how the MC sees it. Personally, when it comes to subpoints, I welcome learning about them through the lens of a different character so I can get a better sense of who that character really is. One thing I see pretty often is switching to another character's perspective and learning of their backstory and their unresolved issues, then the story switches back to the MC for some chapters before the unresolved issues in that character's life come up.

Despite all I said, I do agree that switching perspectives to a character I really don't like gets very tiring.