AI/Roboticist Upgrade

[Coolguye]

No. Consider the AI in its current state to be similar to the singularity being set up before anyone arrived on the station. By forcing engineers to set up the engine, it could be considered giving them pointless busywork. Just to point out that your point is more an opposition to change in general, than to this change in particular, and uh, hopefully add another perspective.

The problem with this analogy is that everybody loves power, so the singularity is immediately a Cool Thing, my own reservations about its shitty, fun-destroying design aside.

NOT everyone loves the AI. This is true even for Roboticists. As a Roboticist I usually consider the cyborgs my homies, but the AI is only cool if he helps the borgs. Many rounds I might decide that I'm better off with a crippled AI, and I'll only upgrade it if ordered to by the RD or the Captain at that point. And they'll never order me to. The problem here is that this one decision by me has made the AI much less beneficial without making it any less obnoxious if corrupted, so the love-hate relationship the crew has with the AI will inevitably shift more to just hate.