This bit doesn’t much matter. There are plenty of programs that break down, abandon their purpose, and then are supposed to return to the source. Some do- some don’t- like the werewolves and ghosts employed by the merovingian.

Ugh...the problem with this theory is that it assumes the prophecy applies from the very beginning of the first matrix. It doesn’t. It’s what the Oracle tells every “one” in every iteration of the matrix. It’s propaganda. Then Neo goes to the source at the end of the second movie and finds out he’s been sold a bill of…