It felt similar to watching the last episode of a (decent) slice of life show: Free of any passion, but not tasting bad either. They even made a special point of having the end reflect the beginning with the young n00b arriving straight to a crime scene, just like Akane did. Of course Akane has now seen more than most and by all means should be extremely jaded, but still continues the work. I guess that fits the final lesson of a society struggling to always develop itself, no matter how hard and slow the progress could be. Appropriately that actually goes for both Akane's idealistic vision of the future and the Sybil's strive to perfect itself and even get publicly accepted.

Considering who wrote this, I wasn't really expecting anything to go according to Akane's wishes. The only thing I was unsure of is whether Kogami would survive or not. I'm glad he did.