Altered Carbon season 3 is one of the painful Netflix cancelations I won’t ever get over, but I still think that one change made to the source material was responsible for the show’s eventual cancelation. Based on Richard K. Morgan’s book trilogy, Netflix’s adaptation began very faithful to the author’s work. Unfortunately, Altered Carbon season 2 took only a handful of elements from Morgan’s second novel when constructing its story. However, I believe that the show’s underwhelming second outing could have weathered the storm if not an interesting deviation from the book in Altered Carbon season 1.
https://screenrant.com/altered-carbon-season-2-book-change-kovacs-story-bad/