
smaller bottoms that are less "manly" are very much still the norm. i wouldn't have minded if they switched (equally, not a one-off with the bigger guy bottoming and to add insult it's like a one-panel thing and the furthest they take it is fingering, while the smaller one bottoms every time after but gets massive panels dedicated to all sorts of wild, but esp lots of filthy dicking) but the chances of that happening are even smaller.
for the person asking what about the cover is misleading, you can thank "hard boiled love", "codename ghost", and "no arguing with mr. mo" for that, bc my default before these was to assume the smaller dude is always the bottom, which was definitely the case here

oh i don’t want to disagree that smaller bottoms are still the norm! i meant that extremely buff men are usually the bottom, especially when the top has some sort of fetish for muscles or big chests lol. if you search the tag for muscular bottom/muscular uke, you can find plenty of manga where the top either has a thing for muscular dudes or gets turned on by the other’s muscles and is significantly smaller.
i myself do enjoy that trope a lot but it is very uncommon for the top to be the object of the other’s muscle fetishes and be the receiver of chest play… i can’t name a single work off the top of my head where that has ever occurred.
but anyway i don’t want to blame anyone for not liking that kind of plot! i just think that works with muscular bottoms and big chests are definitely not rare, especially with that kind of plot line

i definitely see what you mean, and i don't agree with this but i think tops in general aren't seen as the focal point/receivers in anything (except maybe bjs but even then the gaze is centered on the bottom). it feels a lot like straight porn in that sense.
if you're interested i left distressed comments in all of these bc the cover arts had the same energy as this one so hopefully you'll find something that fits lol.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/my_little_passenger/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/honey_bear/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/forget_cleaning/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/short_stories_about_insignificant_tops_escape_master_nim/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/yakuza_wo_shibatte_ii_desu_ka/
the cover gave me so much hope, the actual chapters gave me sadness and disappointment