He’s also shown to care about and be protective of his friends and coworkers. He lies for patients all the time. He often let’s the misanthrope mask slip and does good things for the people around him as opposed to a lot of the other edgelord characters.

I do get the burnout on this type of character, quippy writing and so on though.

That’s a fair take. I gave up on the House show before I saw much of that.