Did I miss any obvious signs that he was not into me?

I met a guy on Bumble, he was on Bumble passport (was abroad but was moving to the country I’m in now – we matched on late Jan, we spoke throughout the whole time & then we met up on March, then May, we spoke pretty much everyday – he would send me a lot of pictures of himself, we would exchange voice notes, etc as well as talk about anything and everything). We met up twice and I sadly became very deluded thinking he liked me in a potentially romantic sense – he would show interest, when we first met he fed me (injured finger + ramen = not good friends), wrapped his arms around me at the meet up, spent most of the day with me but that was kindness on his part, remembered small details about me & was very attentive and sweet making sure we went to the places I wanted to go to. Small sweet gestures he did made me think he may have liked me like he deliberately took longer to drink tea so we could spend more time together, etc but I asked him if he liked me.

The thing that set this off was he called me his friend he met off of somewhere and he hugged me when we left but did not plan on doing anything more – those were two major things that set off flags in my mind that despite his sweetness he may just see me as a friend so I’d asked him how he felt about me. He said I have various attractive features to him but he only sees me as a friend and that he hasn’t developed any feelings for me but is alright with hanging out every now and then. I told him I couldn’t spend time with him anymore or talk to him as seeing him with somebody else or knowing he is dating somebody would upset me even more so I’d rather be out of his life. I don’t think he will care that much, friends come and go tbh. I have mentioned my reservations that he never called me pretty or the fact he never tried to do anything more than embrace me to friends as a cause for concern but was told that maybe he was reserved LOL

Did I miss the signs of his lack of interest or maybe I just wanted to see things, that those gestures of kindness were exactly that – just good old kindness? Well, the reason I ask is that I want to learn from this.

NB: I am extremely put off of dating anybody and getting back into the dating world so I have zero interest in putting myself out there anytime soon really. To put it nicely, I’d rather cut off all my own fingers than get back into the modern dating scene again. However, I do want to use this experience as a learning curve