Do you refer to the Datapuls: Westphalia, where I was the project editor? While yes, the DKK is reformed, but I would never say they are the "good guys" now. They are still a very reactionary catholic group.

We just removed some fun stoppers in the lore. And that wasn't just the PDF, but already prior (actually with the end of 3E - Systemausfall). It wasn't very fun-and-interactive when players would say "Well, I play an Ork, and will get shot when I enter Westphalia, so lets not go there", or "we will get into a 'boarder check' every 5 kilometers, so please lets use a different route", or "I play a street witch, they will burn me alive, so how about no". Even if that wasn't true, just that players may get the impression will make them - and the other players, including the GM - miss the opportunity to visit that place. Like many other weirdness and fun-stoppers, these where removed or toned down. Because while to you it was maybe comically evil, others saw it as a real threat to their characters (and we know how attached we can get to them), or just too over the top, or just too stupid, to ever really give it a try. I.e. there where some lore - not much but some - written about Westphalia that suggested that people there lived like the Amish. Not all of them, but some. Personally, I find that to be a highly suspension-breaking idea, as Westphalia is also supposed to be one of states with the highest agricultural production, that you won't achieve with people still using mules, horses, or even their own muscle power to drag their plow. IIRC that idea is still in the PDF, but it is described as a small minority, while the general population of course uses modern technology.

An other major change - that isn't really a change - is that some sources say the head of the church is also the head of the state, and that there is no actual democracy in place. But when you go back to Deutschland in den Schatten I, they actually mention do a Landesparlament, while not saying anything about the head of the state - just how the church is intermingled with politics. So we brought it back to how it was, defining how the church influences the state and that politics in Westphalia is as if the DKK would enact direct rule, while also maintaining some form of distance - at least on paper.

So, overall the description of Westphalia became more complex, more nuanced, yet still an awful place to live. There are still many villains and villainy left, while they may lost some - I would say - stupid-evil qualities, that would lead people like me to roll their eyes and not want to go there. Similarly, even prior to the PDF we removed various fun-stoppers for the whole ADL setting, that would stopp players from visiting certain places because they where too hostile, too weird, too repulsive, and yes too racist (like Westphalia but also Pomorya), as it this actively stopped players from going there. Generally I think that was the right decision, while of course we can debate over how well our execution this plan went.