Agreed.
I liked the show as well, and some really nice sounding stuff in there planned for the next episodes they'd already written out, had the show returned.
Seeing/hearing that it did actually initially get renewed at first makes a lot of sense of my memory from that period after the season finished, since I kind of vaguely remember being surprised when it suddenly went into limbo about whether or not it was ever going to be back and then obviously never did, other than that eventual little Toonami run.