Am I the only one? (incarnate/lore rant)

Nothing - it's just the usual incoherent rage

I wonder if Tyrant's lava lair, which is connected to the Well of the Furies, can be accessed from the basement of his tower via some kind of portal? Like that could be where he runs to after we trash the Magisterium and storm his tower - he could fall back there and give himself over completely to the Well, and become a massively powerful final boss for a Trial.
I think it'd be rather fun to have the final showdown with Tyrant in the same place as our original fight with him

It wasn't a branch of the FBSA until they decided to add in another branch of the FBSA for no good reason. DATA or SERAPH could have been used instead. Real-world bureaucratic bloat doesn't have to carry over to a video game, and in fact it shouldn't. If SAM is a branch of the FBSA, why have we never heard of it before? You'd think we would have. Oh, and they're shady too. But we're supposed to trust them anyway. Sorry SAM guys, Crimson and Indigo already did that whole shtick, and they were much better at it than you.

The evidence needs to make sense. Emperor Cole decides to store a majority of his military machinery in once facility? Doesn't that just 'scream' - "Dude, how stupid are you."

Of al his flaws, arrogance being a major one, it never seemed to me that stupidity was one of them.

If he wasn't dumb on some level, he wouldn't be a supervillain

Morality and intelligence are two different things :P
If he was dumb, he'd just be a villain, not a super villain

And once he'd finished telling us his full plan, he'd tell his minions to deal with us, and then leave
And although we'd be surrounded by dozens of Goliath War Walkers, he'd instruct Mother Mayhem or another of the Praetors to kill us in some weird way, rather than just getting his war robots to use their massive firepower

EDIT: On leaving, he'd also have to say something along the lines of "and now you must excuse me, I have a lot of work to attend to - multiverses don't conquer themselves", give an evil smirk, then twirl his moustache.

Once again GG shows she knows absolutely nothing about how to play a villain.

No villain should EVER leave their enemies supervised in the inescapable deathtrap. He must order his Praetors to leave with him, and take the War Walkers with them. After gloating how he's going to use the War Walkers to kill all our friends, destroy everything we hold dear, and step on kittens, of course.

Well, you never leave your named henchmen, at least. Faceless goons can stay, as they're often instrumental in the hero's escape.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would argue that it doesn't have a good flow to it. In fact, it's pretty darn poor. Levels 1-20 you might discover the evils of the dictatorship (depending on where you begin your character and, as people have argued before, accept the decision pushed on you at level 20), levels 20-40 are mostly devoid of this story but the devs are making an effort to fit it with newer missions and the upcoming TF's, 40-50 we seemingly deal with the Praetorian menace in Tina McIntyre's and Maria Jenkin's stories. Finally at 50+ the Praetorians become the biggest threat we've ever seen.

Honestly, if the Praetorians had a greater presence throughout the entire game all this end game might be easier to swallow. Something similar to the Rikti invasions would fit the bill nicely. Let's see a nice threatening robot invasion of Atlas Park just to remind everyone that the Praetorians are trying to invade. We hear a lot about how threatening they are, but we don't actually see it until we've already begun down the Incarnate path.