(Average+) Hori-san to Miyamura-kun

Series in one sentence:
A love story starring every background character that's walked into frame once.

Series in more sentences:
The popular Hori and outcast Miyamura become two unlikely friends who're able to be and act like their true selves around each other, and have seemingly fallen in love since day one.
Their meeting opens up a world to Miyamura that was once unobtainable.

If they had just taken their time with this, we'd have a great anime on our hands, but they basically crammed a million episodes into the first episode alone, and further on the series, it's hardly about the main characters or their pursuit of understanding each other. Why is "Hori-san to Miyamura-kun" about all these other, objectively less interesting high school kids and their rushed romances? I didn't click on this to watch their drama.

The show is full of time skips, where characters will suddenly utter some kind of remark as if they've hung out for weeks. Scenes go by way too fast and whatever comes next doesn't always relate to what came before it. This is no way to tell a story. Further on the series I lost a tremendous amount of interest, because.. there hardly was a story anymore.

It would've been so easy to make this about Miyamura and his change of fate after meeting Hori. He's an outcast "emo", who rammed himself with piercings, contemplated suicide, and is haunted by images of his previous selves talking to him -there's plenty to work with.
Except, not really. The latter was a cool phenomenon that got introduced extremely late in the series, making it pointless, and his suicide craving was part of a short scene that didn't really reflect back in his present-day behaviour. All these interesting snippets got drowned out by his overabundance of friends and their boring "slice of life" adventures.

What's also important to mention is that Hori is a basket case; wholly unsuitable to have as a girlfriend. She often becomes angry and violent for no good reason. A sweet, docile boy has no business getting involved with a clingy, possessive girl like her, it's a recipe for disaster, not romance.
Miyamura gets hit, shouted at, is not allowed to show off his good looks, is asked to act criminal for her sexual gratification, and it makes me wonder: what is SHE doing for HIM?

I also found what they did with Miyamura's design a bit of a shame. They reveal he has all these piercings and tattoos, but there's only one instance where he wears the full set, and pretty much all throughout the anime he wears layers of clothing that cover up his body.
What's the point if he's embarrassed about his own fashion style? Why is he wearing earrings at all, then.

This ended up being so boring, would not watch again. A wasted idea.