“we’re well past the fairy-tale idea that in this world there is good and there is evil just because. Movie villains that are simply cackling wrongdoers in this day and age register as false.”
I disagree with both of these points.
Maybe this is one reason why people have so much of a problem with paltry and secondhand Snoke character elements lifted from the Emperor - the Emperor was a villain from a more morally polarized age.
I would have thought people had a problem with Snoke being Emperor2.0 because it’s unoriginal and/or so quickly undoes what the Rebels were fighting for.