It’s meant to be a cop out! It’s meant to cheapen the story. That’s the point! If he died it would have been a story that was powerful and evoked all of this feeling, but she couldn’t do it to him so she sacrificed the quality of the story to give him a happy ending. It’s supposed to make the audience feel kinda cheated.
Yeah I didn’t expect Dox’s plan to be implemented that quickly. I thought they’d spend more time trying to find out what she was up to.