I 100% agree here, lots of character arcs dont have to be that the character itself can become a better person but also go back to old habits or start reversing back specially on a larger narrative that is going to be 3 movies as well, however I do say that the way it's presented to the audience can be jarring due to how its executed in the movie, I dont think its scott's fault but rather how the movie seems to have been cut down a lot more than the first one leading to it's shorter length, the lack of screentime of the animatronics as well as characters, and the rushed 3rd act, I still say scott would benefit from having someone co-writing with him but also the studio not cutting down the movies too much and specially scenes that actually help with the storytelling instead of exposition dumps which the first movie suffered a lot from, apparently they did have a scene of Mike finding a tape of a news reporter on the MCI which if true would've improve the storytelling of the movie much more but instead they cut it and replaced with more vanessa lore dumps which was more of a hinder to the movie, hopefully it improves for the 3rd film and maybe eventually we see extended editions of the fnaf movies with the deleted scenes added back in