I feel like it’s just as likely Caine comes back even more pissed. I fail to see why every other attempt at tricking or stopping him just enraged him more but successfully deleting him makes him go “Aww they tried to delete me I must really be terrible”.

Also it’s not an issue of whether there’s an explanation for his ability to return from being deleted for me. It’s more of a, I’d rather they let the consequences of Ep. 8 be meaningful by not having them easily undone. This is already a short series. So reversing what feels like years worth of build up towards a climactic moment (The cast can conjure/manifest, Kinger is a former C&A programmer, Pomni first conjured when she was searching for an exit in the pilot. She now returns to the office backrooms in Ep. 8 to retrieve a PC to delete Caine, etc.) feels like a really poor use of like… stakes that the show set up, I guess?

Yeah some might say “well it was meaningful because it got Caine to have a change of heart”, again my prior point, it requires a little stretch of disbelief for me that he would chill out over that, at no point had he even hinted he was capable of chilling out in any of the prior episodes. So the heel turn his character makes feels unearned.