I don't understand people who won't adjust/ fix their guitars.

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Offer to buy his cheap.

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I honestly don't have room for another guitar. I just wish he would work on it and keep it. He's had it since he was a teenager.

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Some just use it as an excuse for GAS.

I actually enjoy tinkering with mine. String changes, cleaning, truss rod tweaks. Bought and sized my own saddle after mine cracked.

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I have a 78 Les Paul sitting in a case totally stripped down. Bought new custom Seymour Duncan pickups and haven’t found the motivation to get the damn thing back together yet.

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I like practicing on a guitar with high action. It makes everything more difficult and strengthens your fingers. That way, when you perform on a guitar with lower action, you’re like Goku taking off his weighted clothing. It allowed me to get much better faster.

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Yeah, well he's had that guitar for years, and it aint making him any better. It's so bad, that he doesn't want to play it enough, IMO.
It bothers me, because it could be a real nice player. Seems like a waste to me.
If you want a high action, practice guitar, pick one up at the pawn shop for 100 bucks, but keep your good ones playing right.
It's not just him either, I know several people like that, and it always pisses me off. One guy I know has a really nice old Gibson, but it needs machines, and he won't do it. Spends half of his time retuning. Others that have buzzing frets little stuff like that, and they just let it go. Drives me crazy.

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This was me. I was so awful at barre chords and pretty much gave up because they always sounded awful. Had my action lowered and voila, I can do pretty well with barre chords now.

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Exactly. If you have a good guitar, and it's really right, everything becomes possible, and you will even learn things by accident, just playing around.

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Can I just adjust that to curve the neck back out so that doesn’t happen?

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Yes, you need to loosen the tension on the truss rod just a little. You only need to loosen up your G and D strings when you do this and do it little by little.

Once you get the buzz out and you can see that the neck is nice and straight, your action might be a little high, but you can fix this by sanding your nut, saddle or both just a little on the bottom. Do it carefully with a fine grit sandpaper on a nice flat surface. Maybe you wont need to do that, Maybe the truss rod adjustment will take care of it.

Or run it by a shop, they can do it in a few minutes, will probably cost just a few bucks, but if the nut or saddle need sanding, you are also going to have to replace the strings.
You're looking at less than 40 bucks, even if a shop does it.

Use a really good quality Allen wrench that fits tight and won't round off.