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Nah not even close. There's nothing in this world more wretched and pathetic than a shounen protagonist. Must be something about Japanese culture but every single story is just a beta male power fantasy. Virtually every single shounen protag is just some weak willed loser gifted with Gary Stu plot armor, who gets pushed around by every person they encounter and almost never makes the first move on their girl.haha, you are just seeing this a bit superficial. You can ask those guys who hate Kirito the next time you find one. "whether are they willing to do so, if they have a chance to swap with Kirito?" I think 90% of them will say yes. And they will probably say what they will do better than Kirito.
Just as Kinglionheart said, Kirito is designed to be envied. And jealousy is easily turned into hatred, especially when you have no way to solve that jealousy(given Kirito is a fiction character, it's hard for normal people to get what he get).
There's definitely a few good ones but they're mostly decades old by now and mostly long out of print. There's also some solid seinen protags who I'd trade places with as you put it but fuck no to Cuckito