The behavior of both Maya and Josy in the first season is understandable, these are teenagers whose relationship was on the verge of collapse, they doubted that anything would work out and did several wrong things when a hot cool guy appeared on the side and they both followed him. I don't really blame either of them here. Just like Maya at the end of the first episode, this is the act of a cornered man, cornered by his father, with this blackmail ultimatum. People driven into a corner often go beyond their principles and do what they would not do, this for me is in the zone of “gray morality”.
And here you and I come to an agreement - “Maya is a good person in whose life a lot of terrible things happened.”
As for Josy, if MC decided not to follow her and choose someone else, she should let go of her feelings. This would make a good character arc growing up - Josy accepts the new reality and copes with it, Josy decides what she wants in this life and finally becomes brave. What we all know about Josy is that she is quite cowardly and indecisive - this is recognized by Josy fans with whom I chatted the other day on Discord. By the way, some are not bad guys and can accept criticism of a character. Josy must learn to solve her internal problems and stop being afraid.
I don’t mind that she’s a little minx, just let her stop stalking my MC when he’s with other girls and learn to cope with herself.
Will Maya allow this potential cheating to happen? I think only if MC pushes Maya to do this. Finally, we have the "Still have feelings for Maya" option. In the case of Josy, we see that she is active in this regard, in the case of Maya it will be MC active. It’s not for nothing that we have the choice of “touch Maya’s leg or not”, earning +1 cheating point. I’m not happy that a similar choice is not provided in a hungout with Josy when we are on the route, but maybe this is what the DPC wants to tell us - Josy is an active player in the battle for the MC, Maya is a passive one, and here everything will depend on the MC. It would be wise if the DPC made the conditions for Maya's theft and cheat much more difficult than with Josy.