The people who complain about him don't get the most basic principles of storytelling. You will get way more invested in a character for the pursuit of a goal than their successes, Roman is the wall guarding that goal. They'll climb the wall, fall back down, then build back to try again, with the wall getting taller and stronger along with them. Eventually someone will climb over, and when they do it's gonna be a much bigger achievement then people hurdling over the wall every month