Those are absolutely priceless bits of Americana. I can imagine that's what the animators had in their heads at the time.

I think it's the latter- Maeve's an audience surrogate in that moment,and her horror at watching the lobotomy is also a signal for us to understand how messed up this all is. Horrifying, yes. Exploitative, no.

Yup, I think she rose to the highest level of incompetency.

There's *probably some kind of subconscious use of modern technologies code built into every host for these kinds of situations.

I was under the impression that Jaqen gave her a "congrats you've graduated murder school" gift bag with some free faces.