Another Sex Education hot take:
Adam isn't boring, and he definitely has the potential to be even better.
If being around him felt like a chore, Eric wouldn't have chosen to go see him at the scrap yard multiple times. Not to mention choosing to be with him during the play.
And it's important to note that Adam spent years under his father's thumb. We don't know the full extent of what was happening to him over the years, but it's safe to say it wasn't pretty. His room was completely devoid of Adam's personality because his father decided so, he had to hand in his phone every night, until his parents' divorce he didn't have much to do, nothing of interest he could've done, no hobbies. It's safe to say that if his father saw him doing something for fun, completely innocent and all, he would still find a way to cruelly berate Adam for it.
How do you survive in an environment like that, not to mention thriving?
I'm really hoping and praying that in season 3, without his dad breathing down his neck, we will see more of Adam for who he is - what he likes, what he doesn't like, what interests him, what are his plans for the future. There is so much potential in him and I'm really excited to see what the writers of the show came up for my boy.