Seconding this. It's also important to note that Wesley, Fred, Lorne and Gunn agree to the Wolfram & Hart deal before the memory removal happens. They all get their individual sales tours, which we get to see. Angel doesn't agree until Lilah shows him Connor is about to blow himself, Cordy and a dozen innocent bystanders up. That's when he agrees. So to call this He does it for his own legacy, his own immortality is a really gross and massively unfair distortion. Unless you want to postulate the only reason Angel cares for Connor (at this point a suicidal killer who literally grew up in hell) is "his own legacy".
When Wesley breaks the spell in Origin (assuming that the deal Angel signed had something to do with Fred, which it didn't), and at the very least Connor and Wesley get their original memories back (we don't know about everyone else for certain), the reactions we get from both are diverse. Wesley, who on that occasion also gets his memories of his own guilt (abducting Connor etc.) back, is just stunned. Connor makes his cryptic comment about having to put his family first and that "my father taught me that", expressing both understanding why Angel did what he did, and a choice of his own for that second life (which also means his fake parents as his parents, not Angel); one has the impression that he needs some time of his own to adjust to the whole thing, which is confirmed in the series finale when he can acknowledge what he and Angel are to each other openly.
Now whether or not Angel's choice to save Connor at the expense of everyone's Connor-related memories plus his own redemption is morally wrong or not is another issue. But note that Buffy in "The Gift" at least claims she'd make an even harsher choice with her threat to kill anyone who tries to kill Dawn, and in "The Gift" you have the apocalypse and everyone's lives at stake. Buffy eventually finds a third way to save both Dawn and the world, because BTVS is the kinder show. The Angel and Connor situation in "Home" isn't exactly the same (because the world isn't at stake, the world has already been saved; at stake are the lives of various bystanders, Connor's, and Cordelia's), but Angel isn't given self sacrifice as a third way out, either. (Not heroic self sacrifice, i.e. his life for Connor's; he does have to sell out himself in addition to everyone's Connor memories, for which I'm not sure self sacrifice is the right term.)
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When Wesley breaks the spell in Origin (assuming that the deal Angel signed had something to do with Fred, which it didn't), and at the very least Connor and Wesley get their original memories back (we don't know about everyone else for certain), the reactions we get from both are diverse. Wesley, who on that occasion also gets his memories of his own guilt (abducting Connor etc.) back, is just stunned. Connor makes his cryptic comment about having to put his family first and that "my father taught me that", expressing both understanding why Angel did what he did, and a choice of his own for that second life (which also means his fake parents as his parents, not Angel); one has the impression that he needs some time of his own to adjust to the whole thing, which is confirmed in the series finale when he can acknowledge what he and Angel are to each other openly.
Now whether or not Angel's choice to save Connor at the expense of everyone's Connor-related memories plus his own redemption is morally wrong or not is another issue. But note that Buffy in "The Gift" at least claims she'd make an even harsher choice with her threat to kill anyone who tries to kill Dawn, and in "The Gift" you have the apocalypse and everyone's lives at stake. Buffy eventually finds a third way to save both Dawn and the world, because BTVS is the kinder show. The Angel and Connor situation in "Home" isn't exactly the same (because the world isn't at stake, the world has already been saved; at stake are the lives of various bystanders, Connor's, and Cordelia's), but Angel isn't given self sacrifice as a third way out, either. (Not heroic self sacrifice, i.e. his life for Connor's; he does have to sell out himself in addition to everyone's Connor memories, for which I'm not sure self sacrifice is the right term.)