The development were seeing here is more to do with laying the groundwork for the cohesion and interactions of the friend group. We're also seeing tiny glimpses into the other aspects of the characters personality, specifically with Bell. I can understand not wanting a battle with the same two characters to go on for 3-4 episodes without anything else of significance going on though.
So far Bell isn't a particularly active character, he isn't really driving the story forward, instead of going out and moving the story along, people are just coming to him, which isn't something that's advisable for the main character of a story. It's still early days so there's much more to see. I would like to see some forward motion of the main story arcs soon. All in all I don't think DB's in a bad place compared to what we had recently.
So far Bell isn't a particularly active character, he isn't really driving the story forward, instead of going out and moving the story along, people are just coming to him, which isn't something that's advisable for the main character of a story. It's still early days so there's much more to see. I would like to see some forward motion of the main story arcs soon. All in all I don't think DB's in a bad place compared to what we had recently.