Does this categorical quotient exist?

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Look at the example 3 in the following picture and also its orbits. enter image description here

It is from the book: Algebraic Geometry IV: Linear Algebraic Groups Invariant Theory by A.N. Parshin,I.R. Shafarevich. The author treat it as a counterexample which categorical quotient does not exist.

But in another book, Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups, Second Edition,by Walter Ricardo Ferrer Santos, Alvaro Rittatore, there is a similar example which has categorical quotient, but no orbit space or geometric quotient.

Does this action have categorical quotient?

I think yes by intuition, but can not show the exact reason.