I think one of the major reasons many people are upset is the marketing.I didn't watch MPHT but I listened to the OST on YT and even in that video, there is Areeb and we can understand that it is a love triangle.The montage has all 3 of them in it.So,atleast the audience knew what they were signing up for.But here we don't even get to see Ayra in any of the initial promotions and not even a hint is there for us to understand ke she has a prominent role.Only the teasers kind of had relevance to the story.
And now that the audience has seen her important role, and she’s been a victim of that family , and all of Zaid’s grand gestures of love have been towards HER and not MJ - it makes sense why the audience is so divided. Neither characters are any saints - they’ve all done questionable things but the romance , if any, has been Zaid Ayra centric. At least so far. So yeah the marketing was completely bizarre. You have to show all important players not just the couple who will somehow end up together.
It’s cheating the audience for sure. However, I do feel once the story and tone of the show became clear, a lot of people did accept this isn’t a love story. So the expectations are clear now for a lot of us. However, the lingering bitterness from people expecting wahaj-ayeza chemistry is also justified. Both things are true

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