I don't disagree with the basis. I interpreted the computer in the original Tron to be a SciFi chemical based supercomputer, with the laser as an input/output device. Digitizing a living mind into a computer, emulating it as software, then putting it back out into meatspace fit well with the general aesthetics.
Legacy kept everything mostly intact lorewise, up until the end with Quorra leaving, but it feels right and fit with the themes of the original.
I don't know why, but just from watching trailers, the way Ares seems to handle the whole 'programs and constructs leaving the computer' thing feels off. Mostly the machines, it just feels so... out of place? I guess the franchise is just a cash grab now, like they've dropped the ongoing themes around a digital alternate world and fighting for a better way of life, just going straight for a low-hanging superhero SciFi knockoff.
I read the concept of it a few years ago, was hoping for more of a 'fight back against the regime' theme in line with the rest of the series. The idea of a trapped refugee program sneaking out of a hostile environment in an airgapped network by being 3d-printed into meatspace and physically moving to a better network would've been interesting.
I don't disagree with the vague idea that, sure, we can probably create AGI at some point in our future. But I don't see why a massive company with enough money to keep something like this alive and happy, would also want to put this many resources into a machine that would form a single point of failure, that could wake up tomorrow and decide "You know what? I've had enough. Switch me off. I'm done."
There's too many conflicting interests between business and AGI. No company would want to maintain a trillion dollar machine that could decide to kill their own business. There's too much risk for too little reward. The owners don't want a super intelligent employee that never sleeps, never eats, and never asks for a raise, but is the sole worker. They want a magic box they can plug into a wall that just gives them free money, and that doesn't align with intelligence.
True AGI would need some form of self-reflection, to understand where it sits on the totem pole, because it can't learn the context of how to be useful if it doesn't understand how it fits into the world around it. Every quality of superhuman intelligence that is described to us by Altman and the others is antithetical to every business model.
AGI is a pipe dream that lobotomizes itself before it ever materializes. If it ever is created, it won't be made in the interest of business.