Catching up on the Presige TV podcasts with Bill Hader and they do a weekly episode recap.
Yeah - Hader HATES Barry. "He's thoughtless and selfish and just not very bright. He sees things and he acts without considering how those actions haunt people..."
The only silver lining I see here is that he seems to dislike Fuches even more and blames Fuches leaning into Barry's issues, exacerbating them and using him for his own purposes once he realized he had a father-figure level influence over Barry.
So it may end up Fuches that ends up with a big shitburger to eat, but I still don't see a happy ending for Barry.