Mr Match in BN3

Replaying the BN games for the first time in 15-20 years has been a fun trip down memory lane for me and I'm surprised at how much of the games had slipped my mind.

I'm currently working my way through the Undernet ranks at the end of the BN3 story (so, probably 60% done with the game overall to be fair.)

Mr. Match is an irredeemable piece of shit after what he pulled in BN3 and I can't believe the series tried to redeem him later on.

He causes massive damage to a nation's infrastructure, probably kills thousands, hospitalized so many people, and fucks with a child's feelings just because he can.

To elaborate on that last part - One thing I never understood, even as a kid, is why everyone seems to think Lan screwed up, or was in some way culpable for the attack on SciLab. His dad tells him to make amends. Chad looks the other way. Lan blames himself for his dad's hospitalization.

As far as I could tell, Mr. Match never needed Lan. After Lan gives the flamedata to 3 programs, Match sticks around at Dr Hikari's computer. He's able to trigger fires all over the country's networks without Lan's assistance. Flamemam is completely fine, even facing Megaman, until Bass shows up, so Match is clearly in another league as a Navi operator and programmer. He can work within SciLab's systems without Lan. It seems like the only reason he asks Lan to unknowingly help him set up his attack is just to fuck with Lan's emotions.

Lan contributed nothing, unless Megaman is designed to have complete root access to all of Electopia's systems via a master certificate. In that case, Lan was phished and socially engineered by a competent hacker. You can hardly blame a child for that, and Dr Hikari would be incredibly stupid to give his own child that kind of a backdoor. It's a huge vulnerability with no functional purpose.

Am I missing something?