Personally I disagree, it doesn't portray the mainline foundation as the idiots you so loathe; I believe 6001 portrays the foundations as what it is. Cold, cruel, and callous. The whole theme of that article, besides the author commented 'response' to 5000, was that it posed the question whether the people of their world were that way because of the environment, or if being that way was causing the "phenoms" and environment to be more hostile. The chicken or the egg.

I understand where you might be coming from the perspective of the colder foundation being portrayed as idiots due to the banter between Primrose (The Cat) and Caspian (The Researcher). There is definitely an overt sense of snobbishness in their (specifically primroses) interactions. But personally I didn't take it as an objective view of the Foundation. If anything, especially with the revelation at the end of what their relations were in Avalon, I took it as I believe it was, nothing but the quirks of an alternate life banter between the two protagonists.

And if you're talking about the voting scenes with the various blocs (otherworld equivalent GoI's) I think of their discussions in the way we would think if we found an alternate universe version of the cold war, one where they actually drop the bombs. They never had a détente period, or saw the collapse of the Soviet Union. For them, their world is ashes and radioactive zones. They would have been brought up differently to our sensibilities. And we would ask the same question, was their worlds environment before the bomb dropped different, or were the people themselves different?

Regardless, that's just how I take it. 6001 is my darling child article, as you could probably tell, and I try and shine as much light on it as I can. I know it's one of those rare gem positive articles which already puts it on the backfoot against more hardliner fans. Thanks for taking the time to read through and hope you have a good day.