The thing that speaks to me most here is that Jonny Slimeball legit just told them to their faces that he will continue to fuck up their board and use them as meatshields until he is unable to any more. Right after they express the desire to just want to goof off and do their own thang.
I'm feeling a strange mix of sympathy and annoyance at the hostages here. Sympathy since they just want to be left be. But annoyance since they lack the spine or will to solve the "DREHMA" that makes this perpetuating. Nobody's perfect, that's true, but if that person regularly tries to throw you into the line of fire, you probably should cut them out of your life.