Hot take: I wanted to like this, but too much is taken lightly/not explored enough for me (Rant)

Starting off, I felt bad for Andy. He was coerced into sexual misconduct with a client for his job and gets fired for it while the guy he was with just brushes it off. Andyswears off dealing with him and tries to look for a job. He hooks up with Jio, only to find out he's the Chief Technology Officer. Andy says "hey, let's not do another workplace romance since it ended bad last time." While the previous events were NOT his fault at all, I agree that he shouldn't be thinking about doing something like this...but then he does it anyway. It's not even that hard for him (mainly working on lust), making it kinda annoying to bring up an important idea and then just drop it, especially when he got fired. Oh, and they company they work for is AI. As someone who's a big fan of arts and entertainment and have seen how negatively impacted workers are by this, this made me icky about the whole situation, especially since Andy tries to have a conversation about it losing people jobs and Jio replies that humans do that, too. While certainly true, I do think that AI is a more active and open threat, but obviously for a tech company, they're not gonna see it that way vs working for movies/film, comics, or something in the entertainment industry. They're focused on the innovation of technology, and bringing up ethics like that are usually frowned upon because it "gets in the way of progress."

All of this was making me really queasy about the situation, but I wanted to power through because I liked the characters' relationship, even if Jio seemed to be keeping secrets and both he and Andy were on different wavelengths of their relationships (Andy was still figuring things out and Jio was ready to get married). However, things got icky for me about halfway through season 2. A lot of people don't mind or care about ethics in fiction, and that's fair, but it is something I care about personally when enjoying a story. Andy gets re-involved with Shane, the rich guy who cost him his job, and Andy tries to convince him to invest in their company, but Shane'll only do it for sexual favors. Andy and Jio eventually try to come up with a way to get the contract since they REALLY need the money, with Andy suggesting he just tell Shane that he's unavailable, but they decide on another idea. As expected, Shane doesn't really care about Andy being in a relationship, so he tries to find ways to stall (even if a part of him momentarily feels interested), so he and Jio enact a plan that allows Jio to break into his house, hack his security (which is also AI), and isolate Shane and blackmail him with by getting the camera footage of him and Andy about to have sex. So Shane agrees, and they successfully extorted him. This made me uncomfortable, since Shane does owe MC for getting him fired, but making him finance the company rather than paying Andy himself and letting him choose to fund the company made it feel sleazier than it needed to be. Even the logic itself doesn't make sense; while the camera (if it had audio) could've caught Shane saying Andy couldn't leave, Andy made excuses and didn't clearly tell him no until he was in a position of power and thus could hold something over Jio's head, meaning that he could potentially come out looking as bad as the guy who was pushing Shane since he was still intent on signing the contract. Nevermind him tricking Shane into getting his fingerprint, Shane having the money to demolish the AI company if they tried to leak the video, etc. And I've been told that in a later chapter Andy tells Shane that he's gonna record their conversation, but Shane says he'll get splashed in the tabloids if he tries that, which scares Andy from doing it. So...why did Shane let himself be blackmailed in the first place since h knows he has leverage? And Shane's own contract doesn't make sense; you can't LEGALLY bind someone to have sex with you (even for financing a company, since consent can be revoked at any time). It'd make more sense if Shane knew that he couldn't enforce it but Andy and Jio didn't--but seeing how intelligent they are, odds are they'd know that.

This isn't to say that Shane's coercion and probably illegal contract isn't wrong; it's just that I don't enjoy it when my protagonists, who we're obviously supposed to see as likeable, good people, do things like that. They're doing illegal stuff too, and it made them feel less sympathetic to me when they STILL WANT his business. If Shane had just been told to leave Andy alone or pay restitution for Andy losing his job (even if it's still extortion because of the blackmail and I wouldn't be 100% okay with it, it feels less terrible since he owes MC but owes nothing to the company he works at), it'd feel more digestable. But nope! "Hey, I'll invest in your company if I can sleep with you"/"Sure!" *Proceeds to break into his house and extort him of millions of dollars in their own company.* Oh, and Jio also turned off the outside cameras and left Shane locked in the room. Aside from their own crimes, keeping the cameras/security off presumably for the 24 hours Jio is in charge is super dangerous--which is a nitpick among the larger issues (unless Shane got robbed), but still. Also confused on how the security works; when Jio came in, Versa spoke and introduced herself to him and asked him to identify himself. It neither responded to Shane nor asked to verify his identity (since he was no longer the user and thus should be seen as a stranger).

Side note: Shane still comes to check in, reminding them that it's his money on the line--which presses them to keep making progress. This feels like a tonal shift, since you'd almost think he was a friend loaning money, but he's not; he was blackmailed into it, and Jio and Andy kinda hoped he wouldn't be involved. Who holds the cards here? Is it Shane because it's his money and being coerced, or Jio and Andy because they could expose him? To my understanding, an investment in a company is non-refundable, so...

From what I understand, Jio has more secrets that he kept from Andy (plus the illegal wiretapping to spy on Andy and Shane's conversation supposedly "for his safety" which was OVERSTEPPING) so I don't have the energy for this, combined with the aforementioned issue.