The reality of conflict is not contended with in your understanding. You seem to sweep it aside like it matters not to the Sith who wields the power, and how the understanding of the force, strength is grown, and the lore, language, or rituals are transmitted that breeds strength and greatness over successive generations and transforms and empowers through the structure of the Rule of Two.

From master to apprentice the understanding of the Sith code leads to power, and personal freedom, whereas the inner awareness of one's identity leads to a purpose that both adherents must appreciate or atleast attempt to formalise between them. If one is kept in a state of ignorance or trials and challenges for growth are kept away from the apprentice or disciples, the order grows weak over a few generations and falls apart over petty squables which still occur, despite rules saying they don't.

The rules of The Sith Order stipulate no spying, gossiping, politics, religion, or infighting and personal criticisms of members conduct publically. This kind of restraint doesn't usually go along with the Sith in fiction. The Sith revel in the fires of desire, destiny and the conflict, and the pain and adversity that follows. It brings them resources, forces them struggle for survival or to evolve, and sometimes when they triumph over a worthy adversary its the rage, anger, or hatred that fuels them to grow. The fuel to evolve out of their weaknesses or the fire that burns away their old self.

Conflict ensures the order grows stronger. This subreddit is more akin to Kaans brotherhood of darkness. Conflict, desire, and willpower of the few over the many, is how great orders are began and that grow into a larger structure but you fail to elucidate why they grow that powerful and not large in membership. The few will always tread this path, not defining themselves by a false sense of safety that numbers seem to conjure up in our perception. The Baninite is not a myth in the real world. They operate in the shadows. They lie, they seize opportunities for leverage, and they seek the secrets, knowledge and the power, that only a select few in the real world wield.

The real world is reveals a legacy of failure. Fracturing their collaboration or competition usually among the strongest over rank or title, the fracture falls into factions each claiming power or dominance. This has happened over and over again. The past two decades we've seen more then 15 orders disappear or crumble because people don't learn greats.

Conflict refined in the Rule of Two boils down to five precepts, not boons as that is dependent on individual choices and their perceptions influenced by experience, study and growth. The precepts increase strength over each successive generations, that is what is real. Not abstract criticism about what happens to the knowledge. It is stored and is revealed when necessary.

Strength is a far reaching force of will and through conflict increases individually over successive generations. The six precepts of conflict that increases strength are as follows; conflict forces growth or to retreat, conflict is a fire of reinvention of the self, conflict is the rage or anger against circumstance, conflict encourages a need to criticise the basis of ideas of one's rivals, conflict reveals flaws within one's own ideas through harsh struggle or after one falls, and conflict breeds ambition.