The conditioning and simulations make Weapon X more complicated than just following Logan from being captured to getting loose.
There are things he experiences that are being manipulated. You can watch something happen and then have to reconsider what you thought you were seeing. That includes the violence against the people running the program, so it isn't a good idea to take every apparent death as a straightforward account of who died.
These people are doing more than experimenting on his body. They're interfering with what he sees, what he understands and how he reacts. They want to decide what he's going to do before he does it.
It's easy to talk about Wolverine's anger as if he's just naturally difficult and that's the whole explanation. Then you read something like this, where people are deliberately trying to take away his control over himself.
He's trapped in a place where even what seems to be happening around him can be another thing somebody is doing to him. Getting out of the room wouldn't automatically undo everything they have already put him through.
The conditioning and simulations make Weapon X more complicated than just following Logan from being captured to getting loose.
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