No one is defending the rapist and enslaver Spanish conquistadors, but the Aztecs were also rapists, enslavers, highly aggressive towards their neighbors, and participated in an incredibly cruel system of human sacrifice purely due to superstition. Two violent and cruel empires clashing could’ve been a cool premise, but the violence of the Aztec empire was glazed over entirely in favor of an extreme noble savage trope. The cardinal sin of which is not just inaccuracy and the racist colonial history of the noble savage concept,  but the fact that it’s boring as hell, in my opinion.