Why do people love generic yaoi with a laid back seme who likes the uke BTW but for some ...

Thats the heterosexual logic. Woman has to stay a virgin until 30 and guy has to fuck every girl on the planet. And has to be more manly and richer and powerful etc. Woman=uke, seme=man. ╮(￣▽￣)╭

heh. ╮(￣▽￣)╭. that emoticon says it all

For me, it isn't so much about liking either the seme or the uke. They both have their good qualities and their failings. This story is about law enforcement in the context of comic yaoi. Consider the title. Consider the main character, a policeman. And then consider the person who the policeman is in love with: somebody who keeps pushing at the boundaries between right and wrong, good and bad, often crossing those boundaries. And yet, he can't keep up a pretense of not loving him. So, why would this sort of story appeal to readers?

Change the context again, the way the story changed in the last 2 chapters: you are a rich, handsome, smart, smooth and privileged kid with everything handed to you on a silver platter. Without working too hard, you grade in the top percentile on the curve. Without making yourself the least bit emotionally vulnerable, you attract all the sex partners you could desire. You have money to burn. You can do anything you want. Into your life drops this feral kid demanding a loan and his passion grabs your attention. He doesn't give up, even when thugs and bullies kick the crap out of him. He wants to preserve law and order so he becomes a cop and subjects himself to physical violence. He has a sense of fairplay and justice and goodness which goes beyond anything you've personally experienced, and he's crazy about you, but won't admit it ... partly because it's not kosher in your society, but also because you're a player and he knows it. Why does he fascinate you? Why would this story fascinate a reader?

Switch it up again: You're the BFF/colleague of this bold, passionate person who seems to be rooming with someone who disturbs sleep, packs crap-food lunches, carries on like a sh*t disturber. You see them in this car-crash relationship, and yet you want your co-worker to be safe and happy and have a good night's sleep so they can do their job properly...

There are all kinds of ways of reading this story.

Yupp, but no matter how you look at it, this one is a total cliche (at least for now, compared to other webtoons nowadays who are very creative with thw plot) i still cant believe this is from Lezhin lol

Are there any webtoons that aren't cliché? I've been reading yaoi since the original Ai no Kusabi, and I haven't come across any yet that aren't heavily derivative, mostly in porn clichés, but often in universe-building. And if they aren't stealing character types, dystopian settings, political structures and plot points from other manga, they steal them from novels. So, it's hard to get all worked up just because some webtoons are more heavily formulaic than others. There are always readers fresh to the genre who haven't come across a drunken "I am not responsible for anything I did or said" trope yet, or a swallow-the-communication "If he loves me enough, he'll figure out what I want using his advanced sexual clairvoyance skills" trope. Yes, they are ridiculous, but they correspond to certain touchstones in readers, (usually in direct inverse relation to what is really happening to that reader in real life) which is why these tropes reappear, story after story.