They lost me with the big plot twist end of season one with the first time the power misfired. I felt cheated, they could have made the series go in that general direction some other way, or at least foreshadowed it better with the supernatural power messing up a couple times before.
It really was the best realistic outcome, it is the only way that criminal was getting true justice, the fake narrative about invaders is clearly exposed, and a immoral enforcer faces the consequences of being a heavy for the lying elites.
Just imagine how bad it was before the internet. There is a gun youtuber Paul Harrell (who is dying of cancer) who says how he never trusted media because his dad was a Portland cop, and every week while watching the local news, his dad would say "that's not what happened, I was there."
Not to go too Imp on you, but have we considered that her being a woman from a presumably wealthy family plays the bigger role?
Tons of white girls from well off families go on these same sorts of crusades. If it was a guy I would be more suspicious of subversive motives, but when it's a woman it likely isn't some grand plot driving it.
It isn't even about morally evil, it's about it being stupid; does he not understand that Japanese people also use Twitter? It is like showing an opposing coach your entire playbook and game plan, it isn't going to be as effective if you tell everyone what the plan is.
To loosely quote Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "The kingdom long united must divide; the kingdom long divided must unite."
I think it is inevitable that it falls apart, but there is also a chance the division only lasts a decade or two.
Either way it was like a bad M Night Shyamalan twist, I really think better writing could have brought the conflict to a similar place without that. I haven't seen it since it aired, but I remember thinking it was a nearly perfect anime up to that point.
I know it's a hot take in the weeb community: many years ago I left a review with similar thoughts on an anime site, still called it good, but it wasn't a popular review.