There are no such people with those skills that have a bone to pick with Maria.first of all medical data is kept out of reach of your average person a hacker could easily get through to all your medical data as has already happened plenty of times in the past.
even if the main character did choose to give up and support her he really would not be that happy for her when its done. he would still instinctively be in the emotional mindset of protecting her and being against what she is doing thats not going to change if you go that way. you can be against something and still support people who do it that does not mean you are so overly happy as the main character is in this game when it happens. the main character really reacts without the emotions he should have. yes he would probably be happy for her but what is shown in game is extreme.
about the droid have you missed the part where she became hostile against basically everyone after she got her "fix" ? if you go to the school with her you can clearly see that she enjoys making people embarrassed/miserable by exposing their videos/bodies not to mention that she actively turns maria into a sex slave for her own pleasure. over the game the droid has become more and more distant as she basically gets bored with being better than others for things being so easy etc. it would be quite easy to see her going rogue. for an example just look at the droid taking control without order or permission of another droid and causing plenty of trouble even after the main character orders her to stop she does not.
as for there is no other way. thats just lazy bullshit. there is always another way. you just need to want it. personally i would be fine with maria going without the main character or behind their backs and you hearing what happened from a 3rd source as it would teach maria a lesson about listening to people who clearly know things better than her. i mean her best friend hannah went through it and basically tells maria that there is the option to become completely miserable afterwards like she did and still she does not listen and goes along with it. give us the option to let her go alone or lets throw it in a completely different way maria gets kidnapped because someone already knows about why she was dropped at the orphanage and uses that info against her/the main character to extort you or something. it will keep the same punch you say you need (honestly ? its was rather predictable that it would happen) and it might even liven up her story a bit. there are always plenty of options a game/story is never perfect it can always be better. so yeah that there is no other way is just bullshit magnitude 9. personally i really don't care about maria her bland predictable story for me its the infighting between the clones and our knife wielding youngling. or ninas story. actively killing humans to free some elves
Of course he's not happy when it's done, when it was done was when she got treated lower than dirt, nobody but pro-slave people would be happy about that.
Embarrassing people or making them miserable is on a totally different level from ruining their entire life by getting them enslaved. She has a mean streak, but she's not so sadistic that she would go against the entire hotel and start supporting the slave trade.
No, it isn't lazy bullshit, lazy bullshit would be not showing this at all and then suddenly having the MC pissed off for no good reason. No, this is called cause and effect, Maria's treatment led to the MC getting pissed, not to mention a few players, and that will in turn lead to action at some point down the road. For every cause, there is an effect, and this was the cause for which we will be seeing a major effect. Had this gone any differently, it would affect the things to come as well on a large scale. As I said before, Maria going alone and Maria going with the MC are exactly the same, we just don't see it happen if she goes alone, that's the only difference. She still would have gotten enslaved, she still would gotten treated as less than dirt, and the MC would still do exactly as he did before and after. Nothing changes in this case except being able to see it. We also have a third option, keep things as they are, it's much better on screen then off and having her kidnapped changes the target of the MC's rage, that's not what Runey was going for, he was most definitely going for something to trigger the MC raging against the slave trade and its supporters, especially including Cornwall.
There are many factors that all hinged on Maria going to that hospital and getting enslaved in the process, it isn't bullshit, it's the way things are. An effect demands an equivalent level cause and that is exactly what we got. It sounds less like there's actually a problem and more like a personal issue, for which I have one thing to say, not every game is for everyone and not every part of every game is for everyone. If you don't like it, this isn't "Lessons in Love," it isn't like there's going to be a test on what happens in that event later, so you could just skip through it and focus on the parts you do like.