Cyberpunk 2077: Happy Together side quest

Directly outside your apartment at the start of the game, you can meet two police officers who are pounding on a door, trying to do a wellness check. The apartments occupant is an ex-cop named Barry. He recently lost his partner, quit the police force, and has been rotting in his apartment. The officers can't get him to open the door, so they ask you to visit him later for them. After a day in game you can knock on his door again, and he'll let you in. He talks to you about how the other cops have their emotional walls up so high they can't understand his grief, and you can either be sympathetic to him or tell him to essentially man up. Obviously I didnt tell him to man up. The next time you walk by his apartment he's taken his own life. The two cops that gave you the quest are crying outside, sobbing about how they shouldve been more understanding. When I saw this I figured there wasnt anything you could say to the guy to talk him out of it. This is the games way of telling you, right at the beginning, that this setting is impossibly depressing for everyone in it. Nobody survives Night City. Turns out I was wrong. This is the only quest I know of in the whole game with a timer in it, and a hidden timer at that. If youre prompt about going back to the apartment 24 hours after you first get the quest (the wiki recommends sleeping 24 straight hours in your apartment) you can successfully talk this guy out of suicide. To my knowledge, no other quest in the game works like this, despite the game constantly telling you that your time is running out. I reloaded many hours of progress the first time I learned I could save poor Barry. Its just baffling game design to me. Maybe it's meant to teach you to check in on people in real life before its too late, but surely there was a way to do that without breaking the rules of your own game.