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Written after reading the first 21 chapters (up to date).

First, push on if you're at the first half of the manga, and you don't hate it as much as not getting the point of the plot.
I've felt that way but now the plot is getting more intense and "interesting," in a sense. I'd have given a 5/10 if I dropped after the first few chapters.

What Airi and Hina have between them may seem like love to them (only to Hina I guess), but it'll never come across that way to most of us readers; we just see cruelty. And everything does get much more fcked ... up as more and more people involve later on.
Somewhere between Chapter 15 and 20 is a good place to want to stand up and ponder why someone would write something like this.
I surely was more confused than a blindfolded drunk, and did my portion of thinking. So let's talk about this!

Now, I must say calling this "Yuri" (as a work of Romance) is a bit of a misclassification.
A normal Romance always wants to resolve itself into love: starts with some encounter, then conflicts ensue, and in the end all resolves into either a fruiting love (happy ending) or a past love (sad ending).
This one is, intentionally, neither. Almost everyone is just as pathological as the 2 mains, and when they don't actively hurt Airi and Hina they create more damage passively too.
In the end, the story is devoid of love, kindness, or warmness, and it doesn't seem like it'll be made up in the later plot either. I don't see any of the character getting "rescued" and it'd be quite a surprise if the author pull off one.
In fact I keep thinking that everyone is so broken and twisted, it's almost funny, and it gives a sense of detachment from reality to the story. That does make the story less real, but it helps.
Because my understanding is you're not supposed to attach to any of the characters, and if the story feels a bit unreal, it helps in that regard. Instead, you're supposed to enjoy the thrill of how everyone uses their malice, or just genuine disregard of others, to send these two into a downward spiral.
How Ichika seems supportive for Airi but actually just wants to ________.
How Hina accidentally admitted ______ by ______ but is intentional and it's a part of her plan.

Think of this as a psychological horror work of some sort, with a side of kinkiness, if you will.

tl;dr: you're supposed to get some high from the tortures in the story, not to have a feeling for any of these people.
It'd be quite difficult to go that far, but it is possible to like the story for the story itself.