WP: Trying to update associative array in post_meta with AJAX call - ajax

Question

I'm cycling through an associative array and adding each child array as a row in a table.
The last column in that table is a button in which I want to use to remove that array from the parent array in the database.
Here's my markup:
<?php
$response_cost = get_post_meta( 379, '_wc_booking_pricing', true );
?>
<div id="response-cost" class="hidden"><?php echo json_encode( $response_cost); ?></div>
<?php
$i = 0;
foreach ($response_cost as $response) { ?>
<tr id="array-<?php echo $i; ?>">
<!-- table construction -->
<td><button class="remove-array" data-id="<?php echo $i; ?>"><i class="fa fa-times"></i></button></td>
</tr>
<?php
$i++;
};
?>
Here's my jQuery that takes care of removing the child array:
(function($) {
$(document).ready (function () {
$(function(){
var arrString= $('#response-cost').text();
const arr = JSON.parse(arrString);
$('.remove-array').click(function(){
var val = $(this).attr("data-id");
arr.splice(val, 1);
var arr_stringify = JSON.stringify(arr);
$.ajax({
url: ajax_object.ajaxurl,
type: 'POST',
data:{
action: 'update_cost_rule_table_action',
stringified_arr: arr_stringify,
},
success: function( data ){
console.log( data );
}
});
});
});
});
}) (jQuery);
Here's the function in my function.php file:
add_action( 'wp_ajax_update_cost_rule_table_action', 'update_cost_rule_table' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_update_cost_rule_table_action', 'update_cost_rule_table' );
function update_cost_rule_table(){
$response_cost = json_decode($_POST['stringified_arr']);
update_field('_wc_booking_pricing', $response_cost, 379);
wp_die();
}
And here's how I'm enqueuing the script:
function gt21_scripts() {
wp_register_script( 'cost-rule', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/cost-rule.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
wp_enqueue_script( 'cost-rule' );
wp_localize_script( 'cost-rule', 'ajax_object', array( 'ajaxurl' => admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ) ) );
};
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'gt21_scripts' );
When I click the button on the front end to remove the corresponding child array, It's currently emptying the whole cell in the dB and therefore removing the row altogether so my table returns empty.