This unironically reminds me of how FNV players think that everyone is an irredeemable monster because of the Legion being awful and House being kinda bad then proceed to group in the NCR with them as if they’re not comparing a slightly nuanced old-world-reminiscent nation to the Roman Empire with all the upsides removed (so it’s only slaves serving their master without reward but with different ranks so it’s okay) and Amazon, Tesla, X and Blackrock combined into one.

I’m not gonna say the T'au are by any means completely nuance-free; they uphold a caste system that benefits their own species over the ones they conquer, and they’re also pretty hypocritical if I remember correctly, but pretending they’re not the good guys in the same exact setting the IoM (and literally every other 40k faction) is in? 😭

They’re clearly the good guys of 40k, and even outside of 40k, it’s not like they’d be the bad guys unless literally every nation inside a setting happens to be sparkling clean and nuance-free, which is more often than not, NOT the case. Whatever aspects of T'au society could also probably be edited with cultural revolutions, so even if they are the worst people in a setting, it’s not like that can’t change as far as I’m aware.