My very first impression at the end was that this was a setup for a spinoff. Unfortunately, retracing this storyline and the care put into it raises my eyebrows on the quality of any spinoff. There are plenty of quality YA stories, then there are tropes aimed at teenagers. This came off as chock-full of tropes. If the writing couldn't be bothered with simple consistency like, on Christmas day, Dexter gets shot in the leg, bleeding profusely limping through the woods but perfectly fine and nobody notices the next day, heck he was perfectly fine that evening so he can have his true Christmas gift; we know not much thought is put into telling a well rounded story. Too much stuff like that goes on. 2-3 episodes spent on a billionaire that goes nowhere but Angela simply walks directly to the spot that the incriminating screw is, so the conclusion can be hurried up in one episode. The list just goes on and on. And yet majority of the audience misses the major fact that none of Dexter's kills in NB were about the code. He really wasn't following the code anymore. All of them were people interfering with what Dexter wanted, they all except Logan just happened to be bad guys. If this is the kind of storytelling they were willing to spend on such a beloved character. I feel like a spinoff would be just kool-aid by comparison. I meant not to be PC about it.
[Edited 1/19/22 9:48am]