Omg i love how gay this is getting in the last couple chapters. The author has been SO disciplined keeping the tone for like a hundred chapters and keeping things ambiguous to the point I was not entirely convinced this would be actual yuri and not just a subtext story about the way subcultures connect people. And now all of a sudden bam!!
Idk a lot of gay stories don’t have that type of restraint to meet characters where they’re at. It hits different to spend a lot of time with a character before the like. Gay Story part of things comes out, it makes them feel more believable. I love it.
I get what you're saying and why you enjoy it, for me though having experienced so many years of "Will they, Won't they?" in media (a lot of long running TV shows did it poorly) it drives me a bit crazy when it happens. Especially since same sex couples still often don't go all the way in various media, sometimes the writers even hit reverse as hard as possible after a certain point.
It's part of why I'm glad that there's various stories that jump right into it, so I don't have to worry the whole time. Though the build up to a relationship can be good, I'd say mostly if there's satisfying pay off. Which luckily it definitely was satisfying here.