But the book shows that he didn't give up, and that's what I take issue with. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, except for when there's hard evidence to counteract it.
Like, I could say "in my opinion Katherine Applegate wrote these books all on her own!", but there's pretty concrete evidence to say that's not the case.
Just like the fact that the Visser could either surrender or be certainly killed, and the Visser's established personality, and the fact that the book's canon establishes that Yeerk's won't fight when they have no chance of winning, that all points to Visser Three not "giving up", rather being beaten.
Opinion's all well and good, just not when there's no grounds to hold it.