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I think you're missing a lot of the motivations and character traits of the MC shown through subtext.
What I gathered from a lot of the events and conversations you're talking about is that he is proud and does not trust easily, nor does he want to play other people's bullshit games.
He isn't an RPG protagonist. He wants answers, but he wants them on his terms, and he's not going to just follow the yellow exclamation marks and bend over to do anything he's asked/told to do by the "questgiver".
(spoiler below is for content from 0.6, IIRC)
He also very clearly dislikes being manipulated, and dislikes meaningless social expectations, so he's not going to automatically defer to anyone. What you see as "rude and arrogant", I see as "unwilling to defer to people who have not earned it". If they want respect, they have to give it, and Mr. Hamilton has absolutely not done so. Mr. Hamilton expects respect and deferral purely because he is older and more powerful... But the combination of Mr. Hamilton's arrogance, plus him tricking and manipulating the MC (and unilaterally making the engagement decision without asking the MC), makes the MC far less inclined to go along with anything Mr. Hamilton says (it would do the same for me, so I get it).
(ETA: As a counter example (with spoilers for more recent content), Alison (the Headmistress) has absolutely shown that respect to the MC, choosing to defer to him so they can form a mutual relationship of helping each other.)
As for the girls, he's aware of their attraction or willingness, but, again, he wants those relationships to start on his own terms, and he's a dominant. So he progresses things slowly until they're ready for the relationship he wants with them.
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