You are completely missing the point of just about everything I said. The friendship route isn't the thing being shoved down our throats, Darnell is.
Of course you wont be friends in the main route, I never said you would, you are forced into humiliating him. I said that you have to choose to either humiliate him (main route) or fuck all the girls with him (No really, how many people actually want this? maybe 5?) there's no in between. No normal route, nothing that is even slightly attractive to plenty of people. Plenty of people just want to get rid of him and continue with the girls. Every girl already has their own conflict on their own path, like Clara and her lack of money. Darnell could literally be written out of the route and it would be better for most people. But i'm not even asking for that, just an option that involves him leaving. Just a route where we don't have to deal with his annoying, tedious, shit.
And of course he isn't the only villain, I said such. You're the one acting like he is, that hes so precious that you can't stand letting the player dispose of him.