>>63874896
The CIS didn’t use droids for ethical reasons, it used droids because its military was largely compromised of the private armies of the Trade Federation; who were massive cheapskates that used droids because they were cheaper and even more willing to blindly follow orders than traditional mercenaries. Your average hired gun for Czerka corporation might have second thoughts about trying to shoot Jedi or demand extra money upfront.
>>63875058
>The tragedy of the Republic is that it was all the things that Palpatine said it was. Inept, bureaucratic, cruel, and so on.
Palpatine and his predecessors were instrumental in causing the institutional rot that brought down the Republic. Grand Plan and all.
>>63876201
There isn’t exactly a source for this in EU or Disney, but I always assumed that the shutdown command bricked the droids to prevent them from simply being reactivated unless you gave them a software patch overriding the shutdown.
>>63874364
This, the Empire is a dysfunctional shithole, rife with corruption, graft, backstabbing, purges, and the general shittiness you find in most totalitarian states.