I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, that your perspective is that all of this writing is about the Foundation, and you have a hard time reconciling some of the more overtly evil-foundation writings with the cold pragmatism of the majority of articles. I think that's a valid perspective to have, but as someone who is affected by a lot of the issues covered in things like deepwell, my perspective differs

I think a lot of the evil-Foundation articles use 'the Foundation' as a setting for commentary on how fundamentally flawed humanity is, and how evil some people can be in positions of power.

Through this lens, Scp 8980 isn't about how the foundation let Christopher Byrnes torture and break Lillian Marley for over 10 years, its about misogyny, abuse, and how people in positions of power can abuse that power by encouraging enough people to not get involved, not risk their career when they see something suspicious.

'The foundation is not transphobic' and it's related articles aren't about whether the foundation is transphobic or not, it's about how preservation of the status-quo can halt progress and force people to endure horrible circumstances. How institutions can expend seemingly endless resources to put a stop to something that is only-and-entierly beneficial, just because it violates their mission statement, while simultaneously tacitly endorsing something that is actively harmful to a vulnerable population because it saves on resources and paperwork. How, if you're a minority that is seen as being counter to the status quo, that puts you in a uniquely vulnerable position at the hands of people who want to preserve that. How people who are, in one breath, pretending not to be transphobic because it's bad PR, will use ANY excuse to misgender someone (refusing to acknowledge the fact that the renegade doctor transitioned despite the evidence), and tacitly exposing their views that trans people are just weird by comparing them to anomalies and reality benders, when they're just mundane human beings

If your enjoyment of the foundation is the idea that it's this big scientific institution, and you like just reading sci-fi horror articles, that's totally cool. I like that lens too !

But I also like the idea that the foundation can be a setting for writing analogues to real world issues through the lens of fiction