This might be a lore spoiler depending on what you’ve seen so far (I forget the exact order of revelations) but I think the overall premise of the sequel will hopefully be different AIs like a Greek pantheon allying with and manipulating different tribes like the different Greek city-states, with constantly shifting alignments and spheres of influence in each of the two different planes. If it’s not that, then they don’t understand their own inspirations well enough to develop them