In the books I remember it as being pretty good, because it’s more “hey if you’re going to do a revolution, you gotta throw out the entrenched powers otherwise you end up like the Paris commune.”
In the eyes of the showrunners this was of course too complex or whatever so they made it into the bullshit that it was. It’s incredibly funny how much those two dinguses fumbled the bag. Really sucks it fucked up a good series along the way.