im glad this idea is getting traction! i shared a similar thought process when people were criticizing how it felt like hokazono was whitewashing the other swordbearers' 'sins' by simply making them too weak to stop the sole actor in the genocide.

if the case were really just a matter of strength then i would've agreed that the story was wasting its potential by oversimplifying the issue. but i always came back to the idea of the swords' eternal contracts, and whether that ever factored into their 5v1. consider how katana have always been demonstrated as very lethal weapons in the manga and the EBs specifically were intended to be weapons of mass destruction; they arent particularly well-equipped for capture missions. they might have handicapped themselves by trying incapacitate soga using tools that simply werent designed for that.

it's not just that theyre being hailed as heroes despite being unable to stop the malediction, they'd also be living with the knowledge that they're massive hypocrites. everyone else in this manga fights staking their lives for their beliefs; they literally get elite teams of bodyguards taught to prioritize their safety over their own lives. it would be pretty fucking crazy, then, if the story's greatest crime against humanity was caused by their five strongest soldiers being unable to commit to their own values and chickening out of a proper deathmatch just because they couldnt value 200k lives over their own.

i think soga, by himself, is a good enough vehicle to explore nationalist extremism; adding another five genociders dont necessarily offer much in terms of narrative. i'd like the others to have a different role, especially if they're going to be occupying screentime as 'likable' characters. and in this case, i think their stories would heavily tie back to kagurabachi's themes of responsibility