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> It's the fact that it retcons Palpatine into a well-intentioned extremist
I disagree.
The mere fact he never mentioned it to anyone indicates that he wasn't doing it for altruistic reasons. Palpatine wanted the galaxy for himself, and any bugfuckers that wanted to take it from him would get atomised.
With that in mind, him never mentioning it makes perfect sense; he doesn't care what happens to the galaxy if he's not there to see it.