Like, I WOULE DIE FOR WILLIAM. but holy fuck did they fuck up the existential questions of being an AI issue. Like, not only does it never occur to Niko to say “hey William I’m sorry I was terrible to you but if you don’t come back we’ll all die including you”, but WILLIAM HIMSELF never goes “I came back because I don’t want to die”
So much irritation at the Achai’s motivation going from seeming “let’s figure out what these humans are like wait they have a ship that can commit genocide and destroy a planet? DESTROY THE SHIP” to “lol we’re manipulative genocidal monsters who don’t even have a colonial motivation we just want to destroy everything”