Did any of you idiots even watch Companion?

It doesn't address deep philosophical questions but it directly addresses simpler ones - a Companion is for all intents and purposes a person, its consciousness works just like a human being's does, possibly because its hardware simulates an entire biological brain the way a laptop can run Mario 64

It won't love its owner "unconditionally" but it will be programmed with false memories and an emotional profile to cause it to very strongly love its owner. That's why Iris loved Josh but was eventually able to break free after he repeatedly tried to fucking kill her. Turns out burning the flesh off her arm, setting her up to get raped and shooting a hole in her skull was a serious godamn ick

Meanwhile the homobot, not having been mistreated this way by its owner, eventually had an existential realization of its own that its existence was synthetic and its mind conditioned and it could choose not to love the fat fag, but decided to continue anyway because he never did anything as egregious to it as Josh did to Iris

You're not playing on cheat mode, you're playing on easy mode