[Otto has that same hope. That little spark that would like for him to be convinced Elias will take the gift he's given with gratitude and respect. Unfortunately, Otto also knows it'd be foolish to bank on it. That'd be too naive and too irresponsible.]

There's never any harm in planning for multiple outcomes. But it's those safeguards which might work best from a software perspective. Once the hardware is taken over by Elias's influence, one would be hard-pressed to initiate a safeguard measure from there.