Spamton literally sacrificed everything for Tenna, and yet there are still people who think that he didn't value his relationships, or that he disregarded them in favor of material success or some other goal, and that he only (maybe) started to value friendship for the first time after the Fun Gang cut his wires in the SNEO battle.
He signed that contract with Tenna, despite certainly knowing the risks, his whole life came crashing down as a result, but the thing he complains about isn't the contract, but the fact that Tenna didn't answer his calls! He was tricked into believing that Tenna abandoned him, and it hurt him so deeply that he was still bringing it up all the time a decade later! He was so happy with Tenna before then, it drove him mad to believe that it was all just an act and that Tenna didn't reciprocate his devotion.
We also have the Addisons explicitly admitting that they abandoned him and not the other way around, and abandoned him for a shallow reason - jealousy; Swatch says he was once a "valued customer", so he never saw Spamton as anything more than that, but the "betrayal" of him allowing Spamton's eviction to happen still hurt, because Spamton felt attached to Swatch (over seemingly very little) and thought they were friends.
Spamton deeply valued his relationships, even those that weren't all that great. His situation in Chapter 2 is a direct result of him willingly sacrificing his material success for someone he loved, only for that someone to seemingly abandon him once he was no longer useful, and then his "friends" caring more about the reputation of their business than about his well-being. He was left to fend for himself as a chronically ill homeless man living in a dumpster for a decade.
To act as though him being all alone in Chapter 2 is a result of some kind of character flaw, of him just not valuing other people enough, is incorrect, and it's also victim blaming. It implies that him lacking a support system and thus being homeless is his own fault, when it just isn't.
He valued other people, but most of the people he loved didn't value him, and he was deliberately isolated from the person who did value him, and this was specifically done in a way that caused him to believe he was betrayed.
I can't exactly blame this traumatized man for not believing in the magic of friendship or whatever and no longer trying to touch the hot stove that has burned him repeatedly, and for obsessively trying to become a Lightner instead, no matter how unrealistic, because he thought that was his only way out of his misery - he could never achieve decent living circumstances in the Dark World without external support due to being chained to a job he cannot succeed in, because him embodying spam emails selling obvious scams dooms him to failure.
Even if he tried to reach out to others for help, it doesn't seem like anyone was interested in helping him, until the Fun Gang tried to cut his wires and set him free during the SNEO battle.
In that moment, he wasn't learning to value friendship for the first time, but rather regaining hope that having real friends is possible for him. That there are people who will help him, even when they aren't materially benefiting from it.
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