Anyone else having trouble watching Abbott with how Jacob is treated?

The show's writing seems to have gone from teasing meanness to bullying meanness. Jacob is certainly annoying at times, but he is also a sincere, caring and smart person, so having so many people treat him terribly is becoming off putting.

EDIT: I think some folks are missing the forest for the trees on this. As other comments have pointed out, this is about the writing which IMO seems to have lost track of Jacob's arc and character. He has no development at this point other than he's annoying and people make fun of him, even though in the early seasons he was annoying but showed development and flashes of other traits (e.g. showing Ava he's an excellent teacher, having a serious relationship, etc). Right now his treatment by the writers reminds me of how Joey in Friends got progressively stupider to the point of absurdity or, as another commenter pointed out, a case of "Flanderization"