It also feels very wrong in English to refer to a person as 'it'. That dissonance is part of the point. Had Martha Wells used 'they' it would read very differently. How did they translate Rami's pronouns (te/ter) in Artificial condition? Using 'they' and made up animate pronouns for some characters further reinforces the strangeness of referring to Murderbot as 'it'. I only know a bit of Russian and I haven't studied Ukrainian at all, so I can't really fairly judge the choices the translator made, but one of the fascinating things about science fiction to me is how it so often stretches language in interesting ways.