They changed so more things in these last episodes, the biggest change being
But it ultimately led to the same story beats and end result. It felt like they changed this just to say the anime is different from the game.
It's a shame the logs 9S retrieved from the main server flashed by so fast because they contain MAJOR reveals, like
Looking forward to the second cour. Hopefully they'll wait until all episodes are done before they start to air them this time.