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One of the tragedies of Ongezellig is that the outcome for Maya is predetermined.
The pilot takes place on October 14 2019, Maya has no friends and struggles socially. She copes about not needing anyone, but we see that she does desire genuine connection. 
A natural continuation in a hypothetical show takes place after this date where, given some time, Maya accepts that she wants to make friends and tries to be social. Of course she fails at first, but she learns and slowly does get better at dealing with her problems. After many weeks it gets to the point where she is a little more confident and can hold some sort of conversation with people and might even get along with some classmates, things appear to be going well for Maya.
Then comes March 16 2020, 22 weeks after the pilot, the government has shut down all secondary schools due to the covid lockdown. Schools won't open until June of the same year. Maya would be thrilled about this for the first week or two, but all the progress she made on making a friend is reset to zero. Now she has no reason to leave the house and stays in her room for most of the day. She reverts back into old habits and gets even more socially stunted. It would be even worse for her if she did manage to start a friendship only to lose it. Maya feels discouraged and demotivated about all the effort she put into trying to be more social only for it to get taken away from her so quickly.
Maya is spiteful and gives up. Even when the schools are open again, she doesn't have it in her to try again.
Maya remains ongezellig.