I am not sure whether people who're calling it MC's "true desires" have even read the chapters or not but it's so fucking obvious it's brainwashing/intended personality shift. Like they mention like right at the end of the latest chapter.
@xyzzy the works you mentioned already have a very dark premise from the beginning. Now you take a romcom lighthearted harem and late into the manga, you suddenly shift tones to something dark like rape and brainwashing, obv people will be pissed. Your examples are flawed.
@Asaroki weren't you reading the chapter. It's not his desires but rather being controlled by using another personality on him. Basically it's not the real MC we know doing all that sht.