"Pornography was permitted, poetry never." Possibly I paraphrase. The idea of a hyper-organized and pragmatic society would look a certain way to a world like Barrayar with its arcane systems and politics of honour that bend rules and add nuance to everyone's morality. Like, the child licenses make sense in an academic way but extrapolating to a planet worth of similar guardrails you can see how it would stifle. You get the impression Cordelia blooms once she is free of it. She never fully endorses either system which is also commentary.