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>he doesn't play by some bullshit "filial" rules
Yes. That's literally all there is to it. He was a pseudo-legalist and because Confucian elites that actually govern and write laws got their fannies flustered they spent like 1000 years seething at this ONE ideology criticizing their enshrined nepo-baby rights.

That's Han dynasty in a nutshell too.
A Legalist Qin unites China for the first time ever and a Confucian Han usurps it and spends 400 years seething about it while enjoying the unified China that Qin created. Liu Bei wanted that shit back and the novels were written by another Confucian dog that was actually a descendant of Liu Bei's. That's why the novel is so biased and shits out nonexistent war crimes for Cao Cao while trying to gloss over war crimes of Shu and even tries to whitewash TURBO retards like Ma Chao.