Seems to me more analogous to the final episode of the final season, where they must publicly destroy what they built.

Yes, except what they think they've built is far far less capable than what they've actually built.

This is a ten year old who set off their first fire cracker turning to their parents's iphone and saying 'I have become death, destroyer of worlds', because they don't really understand how any of this works but they've somehow ended up in control of it and are now terrified of doing their jobs.

lol yes, I just refreshed the timeline which was skewed in my memory.

Life imitates art.