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By that point, the sphere was actively resisting attempts to tamper with it or delete or destroy it, though it doesn't appear to have developed a personality.
They tried, in "Such Sweet Sorrow" - the sphere disabled the auto-destruct and raised shields, preventing the Enterprise from firing at Discovery.
I believe they discussed this as a possibility in "Perpetual Infinity" - IIRC, their conclusion was that it was too risky to bring the sphere data anywhere, which was why their original plan was to "merge it into the river of time" (which, to me, suggests they never actually intended to leave the wormhole.
I don't personally think the climax of season 2 is very good or clearly-written, but there are explanations provided for a number of things.
I’d personally completely forgotten about the river of time stuff and the intention to never emerge. Though wasn’t there stuff also about Michael setting a beacon in the future? Also, in season 3 they seemed unsurprised at emerging in the future IIRC.
I freely admit that this probably falls under the category of "personal interpretation" - here's the exchange that makes me think that (without identifying who's speaking, because the site I found doesn't provide that info):
However, I don't think this idea is ever really acknowledged after this conversation, and like you said, Burnham seems thrilled when she arrives in the future in season 3, so maybe I'm way off.