User blog comment:Hawki/Ranking the StarCraft Campaigns (by story)/@comment-31277203-20171218180957

I may not agree with many of the critics on the battlenet and SCL forums, but I do agree Kerrigan's actions were sorely lacking in morality and everything (you can call this being influenced by those like Gradius). HotS showed after turning back to the zerg, it was only upon meeting up with Raynor again that she finally tried to distance herself from her crimes. For the whole sacrifice thing, I'm not convinced of that. Remember, even Raynor believed she had died on Tarsonis during the transitional period between the terran and zerg campaign of SC1 (likely would have told Artanis this during his time with the Protoss). Therefore, from the Daelaam's POV, until there's CONCRETE EVIDENCE of her death, they have to assume she survived. And ultimately, that's about the only thing left the terrans and Protoss have in unity (as Zagara had pointed out in Evolution that there's more unity in the swarm compared to them): their hatred towards her.

Again, I still want the whole redemption thing, but HotS did the exact opposite of everything I had hoped for, and LotV made it seem like the Protoss just forgot the whole thing (as I felt Blizzard simply didn't know how to make the redemption path).

Moving to NCO, the whole inefficiency against the zerg would get the DoM troops quickly, but only up to a point. I had hoped that by the time of Dark Skies, virtually ALL would turn against Davis. Now yes the lower tier ones did, but the top ones didn't. Thus I had hoped that the End Game mission would explain that what Davis still had was the last handful of loyalists (very low in number), though the game didn't say that either.

Personally I felt that the DoM troops didn't try to look at the BIG picture: the only reason Mengsk had his luck against the zerg was because the swarm's goal wasn't about dealing with them. This held true even after Kerrigan took over the swarm, and continued from BW to the end of WoL. It was only by the time of HotS that this changed, and thus by the time of LotV, the Dominion military was decimated. It lost even more in the war against Amon, and if you COMPLETELY destroy the military, it cannot be rebuilt to full efficiency within a few years, hence why by the time of NCO it was still quite weak and therefore ineffective against feral zerg. Thus I felt even if Davis's plan had succeeded, she wouldn't exactly have been able to do much better than Valerian.