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I don't get why everyone complains about dumb stuff happening in modern Alien content. There are exactly three intelligent people in this show: the psychologist, the (now dead) programmer/engineer, and Kirche. Everyone else is only as well educated or intelligent as the company needs them to be for their rolls. In real life, people are dumb as shit, and there has been a concentrated effort politically aimed at lowering educational standards.

Everything Prodigy does is at the direction of a delusional, self-important rich man who thinks he is the smartest person in existence. We have those here in real life, and it has resulted in lax safety standards and terrible practices. Plus, all of these aliens are super advanced bio-weapons that are meant to be subversive. In spite of all this, Kirche has succeeded in capturing everything except the escaped xenomorph, and we don't know that he won't get that one back too.

Are people actually complaining about how the synths act? Because those are either children (and from the look of things, not carefully chosen specimens) in robot bodies, or robot bodies running a simulation of a child's brain. And these are early model synths that were notoriously "twitchy". If you want to complain about what they are getting away with, that's either down to Kirche's plan to capture the Weyland-Yuntani agents, or Kavalier's meddling, and nobody can tell him no.

After this episode, I think it has been made largely clear that consciousness transfer was not attained, and that these synths are broken copies of the original people. And I think Joe understands that now.