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Ah. I see. Well, I can at least justify the Arch-Magus' misinformation.

If you like, you can look on the narration as being with a slant towards the rebels. You don't talk up your enemy as cunning and invincible. You call them brutish oafs to make them less frightening while treating them with the appropriate level of caution.

Now, the other part is: They really are bigoted and primitive savages. Socially regressive, technologically backwards, morally bankrupt, and only successful because they had the ultimate Gary Stu at the helm. It continues because they have raw numbers. I also defend my depiction as a disorganized mess because rationality would dictate that any nation focused on slave sex and the processing/breaking of sex slaves (at a level beyond even Rome) would make them weak, disorganized and distracted.

I'll keep your criticisms in mind, however. But keep in mind, these stories are rhetorical devices. I once mentioned the example of Cato, who ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." Eventually the idea fell into popularity. The idea is to reiterate constantly that caribou are primitive monsters, so that folk cease to associate positive thoughts with them. But I'll make the effort to balance rhetoric and storytelling.

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Additionally, there is the issue of "defeminization of Equestria" where heart, flower and happy rainbow nature motifs have been excised in favor of, well, clumisly oafish strawman masculinity, the Id-centered sex and violence (like the foolishness of turning the Crystal Heart into a penis). It's a ludicrously witless universe made for hipsters to titter over while clopping. Why should I expend overmuch effort to treat the bad guys with anything approaching respect? (I also made every effort to have the male characters act in some manner like the few examples I've encountered, which includes mindless brutality and the title of C-You-Next-Tuesday for all women.)