the Inner Sphere was so incredibly fucked up as a warring infighting confederacy of colonial neofeudalistic powers (ruled over by a techbro corporation turned into an actual religion) that the space eugenicist Clans aren't quite as bad by comparison.
The closest thing to good guys in BattleTech were Wardens.
If you look up Hell's Horses, they had the closest thing to BattleTech communism going on, including a near-dissolution of the usual Clan caste hierarchy bullshit.
Catalyst might have gotten away with revisionism by slowly introducing "actually the Star League was bad" with Reunification Wars but surely we haven't reached "actually Amaris was right"
I'm still mad about that time that a 15 damage gauss rifle hit a cockpit in the novels (which can only have 12 total damage points before a total kill) and the plot armored asshole inside survived. :AdamSteinerRage: