EXACTLY.

That's why I never bought that "Jedi=ambiguous/bad guys" angle for a second. They were (attempted to be) portrayed as heroic protectors of democracy who were tragically outsmarted and betrayed by those within their midst, who finally caught on just a few hours too late to avert their own genocide. But they were so stiffly written, so poorly acted, and so nonsensically integrated into the plot, that it actually came across to some people that they were arrogant, complacent, corrupt, and morally questionable.

Although to be fair, Lucas played into this to some degree with ROTS, but never resolved it. "Good is a point of view Anakin. The Jedi and Sith are similar in almost every way." So, is Palpatine the only one being honest, or is he just manipulating Anakin? Lucas never really solves this, but in the end we're on the Jedi's side and it turns out Palpatine was wrong about a lot of things and was tricking Anakin most of the way, which strongly sides it on the Jedi=good angle of TPM and AOTC.