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I think that was the whole point. He wanted to make them want for nothing, and in so doing, make them hate it. A psychological gambit that's akin to having people have all their favorite food and drink all the time, or letting them watch their favorite shows and movies and nothing else for...

Considering that came from the so-called sequels written by Frank Herbert's son, YMMV on that. I don't consider them canon myself, but I won't belabor the point, but there are some fans out there who can get really militant about those books and their status.

Yeah, which is why - like I said - Leto II engineered the Scattering. So when new tyrants appear, they won't have nearly the same degree of all-encompassing power that he had possessed, simply because there'd be no telling how many and exactly where all the various Human-settled worlds in the...

Um, yes? That was even a thing in-universe, if you read the novels right to the very end. The problem was that despite what rationality and the lessons of history teach them, Humans love strong leaders and visionary figures. Leto II thus intended the Golden Path to not just free Humanity from...

They couldn't be bothered to wait?

They fixed that in the second season (?), Children of Dune, while retaining all the good parts of the first season. Gave the whole thing a suitably Biblical theme, considering it revolves around the rise of the eponymous God-Emperor, Leto II Atreides, and the beginning of the Golden Path...