Should post more tbh, this is firee, the story progresses wonderfully and the characters are portrayed nicely, the emotions and tone are clearly present.

Kinda sad how the story becomes so boring and "human" later on. I miss the original, edgy, no-sense calculating machine authority it once had. If I were you, I would just divide this story, one where YOU would do whatever you want and the second one is what WE, the readers would want. Hope you read this and not just "reject" my claims.

You should've just changed the title if you're not going with the first idea, sure the first one was kinda edgy with no sense of moral or purpose but it was good in a way, it was original, something a lot of writers and novelists have forgotten/abandoned. Now you're just like any other "boring" writer, you've become the very thing a writer doesn't want to become. Also seems like you're too stubborn to listen to your readers, kinda sad that you were like this, I pray you rewrite or make your first idea a different "true story" rather than what it has become.