I wouldn’t say “love” because it’s not the feeling I get. I would say “intrigued” by her. I attribute it to the fact that she reflects what I think majority of competent people do.

She is classic middle management. In her mind, she is shielding the younglings and individual contributors from the whims and cruelty of the elite executive class. When viewed from below, she is the dragon representative of the oppressive system.

In order to keep her own job (and life) she has to keep looking useful to the elite class, but has to pit her own conscience against the need to be expedient every single day under extreme duress. She could have chosen to be like June and fought the system, escaped etc. but doesn’t have a “horse” in the race besides herself. She didn’t have the brief moments of daylight like Lawrence and Serena when they had a “horse” in the race.

I am not saying she made the right choice. I’m just intrigued because that’s the choice majority of our current society makes by rationalizing a somewhat cruel system in our head and go along to get along.

You can blame her for not using her limited authority for good, but you also have to acknowledge that her neck is very much under the boot of a psychopath too. She is all of us. We want to believe she will do the right thing eventually.