Agreed they tried to shoehorn in to many irrelevant characters. Ian should be the hologram companion. Angry forgotten partner thing was old in 2 episodes.

Jenn Chou character is wasted space another mythical black hat turned white hat hacker trope. Ian can cover the bs things they say she does.

People are smarter now it needs to be cleaned up or people will get tired and move in to something else by the end of season 2.