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It's barely even acknowledged that caitlyn does anything wrong because using repression to protect existing power structures is an understandable mistake, but using a fraction of that violence to upset those power structures like Jinx does is unforgivable.
Death to piltover
There's a moment when Jinx is grappling with her revolutionary impact and Ekko is struggling to salvage his eco-socialist collective and Jayce is facing the consequences of his vulgar materialism when you get the sense they might have something to say.
But then it crumbles into Monster of the Week, in the race to set up the next round of action scenes.
The dilemma of Piltover and Zaun is fundamentally the dilemma of waste management. Piltover dumps it's exhaust into Zaun, poisoning the citizens. Then Silco uses the desperate Zaun residents as canon fodder for his own play to the top.
But the idea that Piltover going away solves the problems is as misplaced as the Vander-esque submission to overwhelming power. The problem is, at its heart, the pollution and its consequences. Shimmer presents all the same hazards as the Hextech of Piltover and produces all the same negative externalities. Silco longs to sit on the council, not abolish it. Jinx longs to get even, not lead a revolution. Ekko is the only real decent person in this story, and he's perpetually sidelined by the plot.