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Originally Posted by GGG
Early on the hosts were more mechanical and slower to repair. I think he thought that by killing himself and destroying the hosts he could set them back enough that Ford wouldn't be able to recreate it without him.
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Even back in the day, the hosts could be repaired fairly quickly, as evidenced by the park allowing William to cut up dozens of them at a time. In the Dolores rampage, most of the hosts just took a single gun shot wound, so they were probably just playing dead as per their programming.
What Arnold really wanted was to publicly shame the park by showing the public that the robots were dangerous killing machines. His plan was to drive the park under economically. If William hadn't become obsessed with the park and propped it up economically, he would have been successful.
Arnold knew that having the hosts kill a human was the only way to really show how dangerous the hosts could be. He sacrificed himself to this end.
When Logan and William are in the park they refer to the "incident" and the economic troubles of the park. At this point Arnold's plan is working, and the park is almost done. William derails the plan. He pushes Logan out of his own company and then uses the resources from that company to make Westworld profitable.