I know. The friend of mine I watch most Toku series with so I can have someone to discuss it with has a burning hatred for Souichi to the point where he has done detailed rants about how terrible a character he is for roughly an hour, and how the show treats him far better than he deserves in comparison to how badly it treats Gils and G3. The only other series he hates to a comparable degree is Kyoruger.

(Personally, the most painful experience I've had with a toku series was Kamen Rider Black. It has the stupidest villain plots, and is a black hole of characterization, with maybe... two characters with any depth. And one of them is the main character's motorcycle. Said intelligent motorcycle, Battle Hopper is awesome... which is why he gets a less awesome motorcycle and uses it instead for half the series.)