I think the more generous interpretation is that you're supposed to be like knights errant or Robin Hood figures, saving people from the evil clone fascists and occult capitalists.

But it don't really matter one way or another. To the folks who got mad, I wasn't just attacking Tenno, I was attacking them. People get attached to their game narratives because it's the one place they can still exert some agency, and I don't think a lot of people like grappling with questions of how they're using that agency.