Yeah there was a compelling kernel of her falling back into bad habits at the start, but god, it just keeps going. Like to be clear, I don't think Aloy's treatment of the Utaru is supposed to be sympathetic, she's meant to be kind of frustrating and running extremely high on emotions and putting way too much on herself, but that doesn't excuse how fucking bad it is. The first game had this same issue and it got fixed not at all.