Aren’t they expensive?
Google how much specialised machines cost, manufacturing is already expensive, but it's a long term investment. If humanoid androids are cheap enough that middle class people can buy them, they're not too expensive to replace human labour.
I don't disagree with you on the fact that a "humanized love mode" android is way off from manual labour androids but are you misunderstanding what he does for a living? because he's literally an engineer for androids! Or are you saying engineers do manual labour? Engineers will, in my opinion, never be replaced - it's impossible
There's difference in human labour vs tech based labour- AI/robots etc. Thinking outside of the box is probably one. If you task a machine to fix something it will only base it from the knowledge that's stored in them. If they dont have that data then it's dead end. Unlike humans, they tend to experiment things, discover etc which leads to new learnings. Tht's why no matter how modernised we are, we still need human labour. And also I think if companies wont let people work and earn money, who's gonna purchase all the the things theyre making/selling?
The thing that takes me out of the story the most is his fucking job. I'm not some kind of technology expert, but I don't understand how a world were intelligent androids exist, there are still human workers who do manual labor???? The author doesn't get that complicated social interactions would be way more difficult for a robot to execute than doing detailed manual work? Truly confoundig world building.
If this were just porn without plot I wouldn't even say anything, but there is a lot of plot going on actually.
But I guess the person that made this comic is a tech-illiterate grandma