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I agree that it's a contradiction, but I disagree that it necessarily means it doesn't work. It just means they were trying to find some kind of clumsy balance between protecting the population and placating the capes.

We see quite a few people going from hero to villain in the work, not least of all Taylor herself, but other examples that were at the very least borderline and could have easily gone over if circumstances were just slightly different are Armsmaster and Shadow Stalker.

How about this hypothesis? Restrictions on the Protectorate are due to mistrust of the parahumans. Restrictions on the PRT are due to fear of the parahumans (and their reaction). Don't forget that there are a lot more villains capes than heroes on Earth Beta, I would imagine the government...

You forget that despite the official veneer of the organization, capes are highly feared and distrusted by normals. It makes sense they have hard limits on what they're allowed to do.

I feel like this problem is easily fixable if they just moved on from the stale duopoly of Marvel/DC already. Look, deconstructions can be great. Worm is a deconstruction too, in many senses, and I enjoyed it. Watchmen and The Boys, both deconstructions, were good and enjoyable, although not...