Haven't been much into BN (never was my fav series), but shouldn't it actually quite possibly be 2-B at least by end of series?
As previously mentioned, Gospel was a relatively early boss, and he'd get one-shotted by anyone remotely comparable to Bass.EXE EoS (Such as Gregar, Falzar, MegaMan.EXE, Colonel.EXE, ProtoMan.EXE and MAYBE people like Nebula Gray and Duo.EXE) while Duo.EXEs stage shows Cyber Cores are Universe sized) Duos stage isn't the entire net by any means, and Alpha may be universal, but he clearly isn't the size of the modern met given he seems to be a semi-sentient Amoeba of a Cyber core)
I argue this is 2-B because every single Device seems to have a Cyber core, and there are at least billions of devices (similar to real life smartphones), if not more since well, EVERYTHING even remotely techy has one.
They also likely have separate time as you can change the time to whatever you want on your cell phone or computer irl (kinda redundant but worth noting), and they, while connected to the net somehow, seem to be entirely separate otherwise as you cant access them aside from Jacking In, and don't run at a time consistent to real life at all, since there are Cyber cores that seem to be at night during the day irl, and vice verse.
Just some stuff to think about.