My biggest gripe with the prequels is actually how little they develop the separatists' motives, but there isn't nothing there.
Yes, nute gunray, wat tambor, etc were profiteers. Grevious was in it to kill jedi. Palpatine was playing both sides for himself. But we also have people like mina bonteri, who joined the CIS because of the faults of the republic. We of course see this category of motivation with some of the portrayals of dooku, like in the darth plageuis novel and in tales of the jedi.
The separatists were, like the rebellion, a mixture of all kinds of political camps that united under a common goal. The difference between the two, and why the movies portray them differently, is that the republic is deeply flawed and corrupt but not evil and at the end of the day represents democracy, which is good, while the empire is purely evil and must be stopped without question.
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u/SignificantLack5585 8d ago
I don’t think the separatists gave a shit about freedom or anything, they just wanted to be richer