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From 義妹生活 ch3, protagonist was describing 目玉焼き cooked for him by his stepsister,
あくまでも基本に忠実、変なアレンジをすることもなく、きっちりと教科書通りのものを作ったんだろう。黄身や全体の形が崩れたりもせず、きれいな円を描くそれは、味も食感も見た目通りの完成度だ。過度なメシマズ属性を持っていないあたりも、二次元世界の架空の妹と違って、平淡でドライな義妹である。
I'm not sure about the あたりも part. Can I replace it with なども? Or あたりから見ても? What も might be doing here?
Also, the subject for 持っていない is 目玉焼き?
As noted in the answer naruto linked, あたり is a way of making thing indirect. And も works the same way here.
Possible variants:
あたりからみても would be fine (but sounds lengthy). なども requires a nominalizer as above. Comparison: 持っていないのが would be exactly not having メシマズ property makes the sister different from fiction.
There could be many properties a fictional sister could have other than メシマズ: ツンデレ, ドジっ子 etc. Both あたり and も imply the sister doesn't have メシマズ property, nor other common-for-fictional-sister properties like ツンデレ.
The subject of 持ってない is the sister.
