Just a pet peeve of mine, it’s like complaining the Jedi couldn’t stop Palpatine and that means they’re all idiots with a silly religion or something.
They were the guardians of a multispecies Republic for ten THOUSAND years, and they curb stomped the Sith Empire everytime it tried to start shit. They clearly knew what they were doing.
What was the alternative? Seizing direct control of the government? Executing every Senator that looked a little corrupt?
Palatine played a game they couldn’t counter without destroying themselves in the process. Sometimes you just lose…