I still maintain that Q was a net positive all things considered, in that it successfully deprogrammed Boomers from their ingrained belief that government officials were well-meaning but either incompetent or stymied by the system.

Replacing one set of bad beliefs with another set of bad beliefs is not really progress.

A significant percentage of the population believing government officials are irredeemably evil is useful for our purposes

I am not sure. Although it will be impossible to teach a large number of people how organizations like the government actually work, it's far better to be able to pressure the government into doing what you want, rather than believing that it's just 'evil'.