It was certainly dealt a near-fatal blow the last time an outhouse was relevant (and it's weird that it's happened twice)

I wish whoever decided against it a very pleasant "the hookers, JFK and Stalin"

That just means it will keep steeping, and come out all the more sweeping, dark, and weird!

Just another way for Cohen to make the employees dance like puppets as he rides the company to the bottom.

NPCs can be... unbalancing in Metroid games, but I already enjoyed playing a game where a different NPC told her not to use her full powers even if she would die in the process, so I can easily tolerate one chatty tutorial NPC who is clearly not intended to hang around forever.