They'll feel the pain in due time
Some of us have read the novel you know... It doesn't make it fair what he does to Michele and Katya who weren't even alive when shit was happening to him in the past
While i agree that it isn't fair to them, he was ripped off of his innocence by the very man who birthed the man he is supposed to marry. I cannot defend him for being mean to katya but i absolutely get why he is the way he is to michele
"the man he's supposed to marry" but it was Ian himself who organized the wedding through letters lol I'd understand more if he just went to the south and massively shot down every Anatold family, instead the mental torture, sexual assault and murder plans he's inflicting on the only one innocent member of the family makes no sense to me. And if he didn't know before he knows now Michele isn't the usual stuck up noble, he was able to fall in love with a servant regardless of social standings and Ian knows Michele's been sold off regardless of his wellbeing and kept in the dark of their sordid deeds by the rest of the family.
everytime I see someone hating on ian I have this unquenchable urge to just spoil the novel