I think this has been my favorite of the series! I keyed in a bit early on what the point of our presence was, but I think that's just genre savviness at this point ^^
The little 'task accomplished' popups were a great detail, made me feel like there was an intentional 'subliminal' push in-universe towards evoking the good feelings compliance would induce in a good candidate.
As much as the IRL option felt like it fit, and even interested me, I could not help but to become a CAT. May have a little bias towards it, may just feel like being a little robot that makes people feel better and gets pet for it would be just delightful and maybe a bit 'right', even.