Hoid’s Banjo

Shallan: 

...See, fantasy is a genre with a weirdly pro-monarchy history, and Sanderson is extremely guilty of that (especially in Stormlight). And then, his only well known characters that meaningfully resist their unjust dictators are Kelsier and Moash, and for BOTH of those characters, Sanderson has gone in an interview and said "yes that person is evil and bad and mean and Problematic."

The idea of an author telling the fandom how to interpret their character is already pretty suspect, and adding in the context makes it kind of gross. The message is basically, "hey, be like Kaladin, not like Moash! You should support the unjust government which literally enslaved you (and kill lots of people for them on the battlefield), not do something HIDEOUSLY IMMORAL like murdering one (1) person in an attempt to stop that injustice!"

on the moash note, i definitely fell into the boat of disliking him in my first read through (some of my old posts make that very apparent) but on my second read through, thanks to some more time to mature and also a bunch of people on this site, i realized he was right in many ways, though i still do not think his methods were the greatest.