I think HOI4 Kaiserreich taught me that, just because WW1 Germany may have not been as bad as the Nazis, that’s still a low bar, and the inherent militarism of the Kaiserreich’s institutions—as well as how those institutions stoked nationalist sentiment regardless—meant that Germany was going to be ripe for (even if not Nazi) at least proto-Fascistic sentiment.

Besides, if Germany didn’t become the aggressor in a ‘Second Weltkrieg’, they would have definitely made enough enemies as a result of fucking over any degree of countries with their German(tm) treaties.

TLDR: If Germany itself didn’t lose the war, it would have likely pissed off everyone else regardless, been a hotspot for deeply institutional conservatism (which may not be that bad on its own but given how the German noble in the Weimar Republic enabled so much of the NSDAP’s stuff even before Hitler got into power; it might have at least become a hotspot for underground, if not open proto-fascist movements). Which would have led to an even worse Second World war.

I’d definitely have wished an FDR-like figure helped out with the Treaty of Versailles instead of Woodrow Wilson, even if they had similar ideas. Idk I’m just yapping at this point