LOL there is no doubt that ITV doesn't work on any logic😆.....but your points are quite valid here too.
There is still a big gap between how much Adi has to grow to see Imlie beyond the labels he initially assigned to her and where he is currently in his emotional state about her.....New eyes wala phase as you said....we the audience could see it since way back but Adi has had no such cognition....even Imlie has gotten a build up to emotion sickness in bits and pieces while he hasn't.
The issue though also is that Adi as a personality doesn't do gradual very well😆....he just suppresses a lot and then things hit him like a bolt of lightening....this is what happened with the gunshot track too.....will he even take the time to go through his evolving feelings for Imlie or will it just hit him like a bolt from the blue what she has become for him? That is what we are waiting to see.
I think the trickiest part is that they have to show a balance between his bonding increasing with Imlie and him slowly pulling back from Malini....but they aren't really doing that given how he jumps back and forth in excessive guilt-trip driven PDA....so is sab mein kahaan se hoga introspection about what Imlie has come to mean to him and how Malini is not the center of his world as he claimed? 😆.....which is what makes the bolt from the blue angle a probability as well. Adi only realizes things when they hit him like a ton of bricks....not gradually😆.
*Edit: And yes, there is also the angle of the WEIGHT of a 7 year relationship....logically speaking koi bhi is baat ko process nahin kar paayega ki someone you've known for just a few months is now more important to you than a 7 year relationship.....toh Adi will definitely struggle with that too and this is why it seems hard for him to back off from Malini at this point....which is why whatever he realizes for Imlie will likely not rise to the level to make him question his feelings for Malini yet :S
I totally agree that Aditya is impulsive and it will be a bolt of lighting realization. I just feel that the time now is not right. The reason I am saying that is because lets says he goes the love route and gets Imlie back but then what will happen after he see Malini. He is going to go in this guilt mode, do a 360 degree turn and take himself away from Imlie, in turn hurting her. On the other side, if he knows that he has deeper feelings for Imlie but is still continuing with Malini, then that is totally not right too. It was Ok, till now because Imlie was aware of his feelings for Malini and had accepted it whereas Aditya was unaware of his own. If after realizing, he still hiding the truth, then it totally against his "follow the path of truth" ideology. Plus, he will be wrong and Malini will get the sympathy card because she will totally be in the dark. Remember that trust convo, the end was Aditya should tell her when she should stopped trusting him. I feel the end of this track should be that....i.e. whenever Aditya realizes be it now or later it should follow with telling Malini or at least try to (because that going to be another drama).