I understand where you are coming from, but Jaehyuk has never experienced any form of prejudice, so he can only sympathize, but cannot empathize. This means he can never fully understand the fear of coming out, but is still trying to keep them a secret because he knows that’s Garams weakness. Also, both times they were accidentally outed it wasn’t great, but there wasn’t really that big of consequence of being outed in Jaehyuk’s perspective. He wasn’t outside to hear what his mother said and Garam acted like he was scared of them breaking up, but never said a word about what the parents and him actually talked about. He probably hasn’t even talked to them since because he’s so busy with the influencer stuff. At the same time the parents are probably swamped with customers and can’t do anything even if they wanted to. Also, with Shinjoo, childhood friend, after he put her in her place she didn’t out him to his parents first, so even though she talked shit, nothing bad resulted from her knowing. He isn’t going to understand the intensity of coming out until it fully affects him negatively. One other thing I should mention is that he isn’t scared of Kwon Sehan because it’s been proven he is all bark when it comes to outing them, because if he was going to do it, he had more than enough time to, and he didn’t. (Sorry for my grammar, I don’t really think about it while writing this stuff lol)
Long story short, author's writing the plot soooo yeee
ive seen some people say jaehyuk had "come out" to various characters (his childhood friend shinjoo, his parents) but this just isnt the case- in every single situation, he was discovered, be it from a date with garam or from being found at a gay bar, he can claim being gay afterwards as much as he wants but ultimately that is not actually what coming out is.. im getting the impression that its ok for garam to be outed as long as its jaehyuk outing him but sehan so much as threatens to out garam and hes the devil for that right? what exactly are the stakes then if jaehyuk outs garam (albiet unintentionally) multiple times and nothing happens? why does jaehyuk not seem to understand or be afraid of being outed as gay if earlier in the story he was able to use that as leverage against garam?? im kind of tired of these scenes getting played off for comedy because it kind of ruins any sort of potential for jaehyuks chatacter and, as ive seen from peoples reactions, makes garams concerns seem trivial when garam literally got his shit rocked over being gay like idfk. jaehyuk isnt a "himbo" hes being irresponsible and careless even while knowing garams trauma... buuuut im sure this will be brushed off.. i hope something interesting happens but as of right now i feel like we lowkey lost the plot