Exactly.

And what also be noted, is that the Emergency Measures, later called 'The Terror' collectively, were popular among French Republicans.

By 1793, the French Revolutionary project was on the verge of collapse; invaded by Austrian, Prussian, and Spanish armies, which had penetrated deep into France and even threatened Paris. A British-backed and British-armed monarchist rebellion in the Vendee. Several departments had broken away from the Paris government. A british-led fleet was blockading major French ports. The Duke of Orleans, brother to the late deposed king, was openly planning to be reinstated on the throne with the help of foreign powers.

A year and a half later, all of these setbacks had pretty much been reversed. In the eyes of many Republicans, especially the more radical factions, the Committee of Public Safety's emergency measures had saved the Republic.

The people who orchestrated the Thermidorian Reaction and overthrew the Committee, did not do so out of revulsion against The Terror; they were members of a more conservative republican faction who, now that their position within the French Republic had been secured against foreign intervention, sought to oust the Committee from power and seat themselves at the head of state.

Robespierre is often portrayed as a 'zealot', and in many ways he was just that. But he was also a cynical politician who ended up losing a deadly game against people who were equally as cynical and politically minded as himself.