Golden Girl

Well, the original idea was for Praetoria to be a straight Heroes vs Villains fight - but at some point further down the line, they tried to add more "shades of gray" to the setting - and for some reason, they decided to do that by trying to make the Crusaders as bad as the loyalists, rather than dialing back the loyalists' evil.
Clues in the closed beta seem to point to the alpha build having the original Resistance heroes vs loyalist villains idea in it, as during the closed beta, there were some weird things showing up, like the loyalists had the red side mission completion music and could only pick red side titles, and the Resistance were only able to pick Hero titles and had the blue side mission completion music - so if the attempt to add "shades of gray" was done that late in the development process, then it was probably easier for them to add evil stuff to the Resistance, rather than totally rewrite the whole loyalist side to be less evil, as that might have meant delaying the launch date.

Another big clue is aslo how much of the evil stuff the loyalists do isn't really for any reason, except to add flavor and fill in the check-list requirements for an evil dictatorship - if they were genuine shades of gray, then there'd be a reason for the slavery, the thought police the mass-murder, the torture, the "disappearances", the drugged citizens and so on, rather than just being there to add a few extra twirls to the moustacheometer - and the Praetors also wouldn't be written as such evil psychos.

For example, the whole drugged water/Enriche thing is not a shade of gray thing - it's a flat-out evil thing - it's there to show the players that any support for the dictatorship by the citizens could be down to the happy drugs, when a shade of gray would have normal drinking water, and the citizens genuinely supporting the dictatorship.
Or there's also the details about the Seers - the whole thing of them being slaves who lose their memories and personalities is totally un-needed, except to show just how horrific the dictatorship is - a shade of gray would have the Seers being an elite voulnteer unit, not enslaved drones.
And then there are the badges in the Underground, helpfully pointing out just where the dictatorship secretly tortures and slaughters its victims on a daily basis - and again, there's no need for those, except to show just how vile the loyalists are - a shade of gray wouldn't have the slaughter rooms and torture chambers - Tyrant wouldn't be murdering unknown numbers of people every day, and torture wouldn't be standard procedure amongst the PPD.

The attempt to add "shades fo gray" to Praetoria is also the reason why the exit mission at 20 can be kinda weird

GR is still a totally amazing addition to the game, but because of the late-ish attempt to add some "shades of gray" to the setting without actually reducing the level of the loyalaists' evil, there are parts of it that just don't quite mesh together in a way that would actaully show a genuine shade of gray.

Tyrant can't not know what evil is being done by his stormtroopers

Primal Earth seems to cope with psychics without havng to become a fascist dictatorship

There need to be more breasts on childrens shows - it might make them less immature when they grow up
There's this weird thing where breasts are ok from the day the baby is born up until a certain age, then they become something shocking that have to be hidden from the child - but then they become totally ok again later on at another certain age.
Like if it's ok for a child of 2 to get really up close and personal with breasts, why do they have to be hidden when the child is 7?