Personal take on the game: you're not playing things as they enfold, you're playing the archived engram memories of V, probably edited a bit to make things a lot more heroic. Like Silverhand, you're stuck on repeat, relieving reconstructed variations of the events forever, but whoever made the engram in the end was sympathetic enough toward V to grant some respite.
Would explain a lot of things, among which the messages when you try to leave Night City.