Yikes, but honestly the overnight soak is not the villain here. Most nonstick air fryer baskets are just thin stamped metal with a cheap coating, and buffalo wing sauce is acidic and salty, so that combo sitting for hours eats into the finish way faster than plain water ever would. The warp probably came from the tray going from a hot oven straight into cool sink water, not from the soak itself. That bubbly patch near the handle is a clue, that is where sauce pools and where the coating is thinnest. So yeah, hand washing fast is smart, but blaming the soak alone feels like letting the cheap build quality off the hook.