"Columbus Day" where (SPOILERS):

They introduce Skippy.

That is a shall I say "tectonic magnitude shift" in the narrative and would be for any story when you introduce an almost omniscient "godlike" AI.

Other sci-fi and fantasy series likewise introduce "godlike" powers or people/things and then do a terrible job minimizing or "limiting" them or giving non-credible reasons they can't be used or employed. (Wheel of Time did this with adding powers that would have enabled the main characters to remain in constant contact, but then gave them Beverly Hills 90210 teen drama so the wouldn't talk to each other).

I'm intrigued to see where this goes.