@Wisblade look my guy, I'll try to this brief:
I think it's pretty obvious that the MC is portrayed as flawed. No one is arguing that he is a role model. It's more like that his problems are Relatable and we root for him because we know people who want us to have our lives in the way THEY want.
About Blondie's job, you act like he can't work anywhere else despite being talented enough to work under the MC (later confirmed that he is so talented he would be a core member in other workshops). You act like he is living with minimum wage when literally the ONLY time he says he's broke is because he bought a girl a gift that we don't know anything about (heck it's only implied/said that it's expensive). I think your argument would be correct if we were told that a job in magic tool workshops is too competitive or pays dirt cheap but we don't know that (open to be proven wrong).
About the message, again, The MC literally has no use for it and HE is the one who owns it now. The only thing that message would get him is a one-way ticket to annoying political fights, unwanted attention from the nobles (which, you know, he doesn't like), and hurting Catarina and her family. There's even a chance someone he invites fiddles with the artifact behind his back, discovers the message, and then drags him into trouble. It's straight up better for the message to not exist at all and he didn't want to deal with whatever landmine that jerk of a grandfather left him (an unrelated person) with, which is understandable.
I think it's pretty obvious that the MC is portrayed as flawed. No one is arguing that he is a role model. It's more like that his problems are Relatable and we root for him because we know people who want us to have our lives in the way THEY want.
About Blondie's job, you act like he can't work anywhere else despite being talented enough to work under the MC (later confirmed that he is so talented he would be a core member in other workshops). You act like he is living with minimum wage when literally the ONLY time he says he's broke is because he bought a girl a gift that we don't know anything about (heck it's only implied/said that it's expensive). I think your argument would be correct if we were told that a job in magic tool workshops is too competitive or pays dirt cheap but we don't know that (open to be proven wrong).
About the message, again, The MC literally has no use for it and HE is the one who owns it now. The only thing that message would get him is a one-way ticket to annoying political fights, unwanted attention from the nobles (which, you know, he doesn't like), and hurting Catarina and her family. There's even a chance someone he invites fiddles with the artifact behind his back, discovers the message, and then drags him into trouble. It's straight up better for the message to not exist at all and he didn't want to deal with whatever landmine that jerk of a grandfather left him (an unrelated person) with, which is understandable.