II S2E17 - "Through No Choice of Your Own"

I don't know what to say right now. It really is a lot to process.

I have a feeling that this isn't really the end for a variety of reasons:
1. Mepad is probably still around, and so is Soap's phone. In the previous act there was a scene where Soap deleted a picture, but it wasn't fully deleted yet. This is likely going to come into play with whatever Mephone4 decides to do. Not sure if Bot will ever factor into this, seeing as they were object-made as well.
2. Some movies have unconventional act structures, but I doubt something like the Inanimate Insanity MOVIE would end with only 2. We'll probably get at least one more. Not to mention the movie was said to have multiple parts....
3. We have some answers regarding the extent of Mephone4's creation of the contestants, but there's also a few unresolved plot threads and questions regarding others, and some of the vague answers I've seen in the QNAs don't quite line up with this ending?
EDIT: ALSO the other 2 seasons ended with 18 episodes. I THINK somewhere this season was also initially proposed to have 18 episodes before it was "changed" to be 16???? Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Personally I wouldn't really mind if it ended abruptly here as a tragedy of sort, but I digress.

I wouldn't mind if that's the ending but I would find the ending very jarring even if it's Inanimate Insanity, the object show notable for tone shifts. 100% no way that's the end.

If we're following 3 act structures similar to a movie/musical, this is the lowest point before it resolves. People are comparing this to the ONE ending, but they're inherently very different shows that start out tonally different. ONE always had a bleak vibe so it's expected to end bleakly.

I kind of have to hand something to this episode, which is the way that the contestants react to MePhone. I was under the impression that this part would leap to them being unusually kind towards him despite the circumstances that he's put them in (and that they're now aware of), but it didn't. In my posts about S2E16, I said that I thought making these kinds of reveals about MePhone's character might be too late to be handled properly, but this episode spends a reasonable amount of time on it, in which things play out fairly logically. That creates a better outlook. Of course, the quality of the concept as a whole depends on what the next part is like, but for now, things regarding MePhone are "good." (Can I say that?)

I also thought that the new writer-inspired robots were dumb. A.D.A.M. was a fine seconds-long reference in S2E13 because he had already appeared in S1, and therefore warranted an explanation. I'm not sure why these guys are here.