I think it could help explain the chipping scenes too.
Catra was fully chipped and only freed by the chip itself being damaged.
Micah was fully chipped and seeing his daughter for the first time in 15 years did nothing for him.
No other regular people, apart from Hordak, showed any resistance to hivemind brainwashing. It's possible Hordak isn't "chipped" in the same way either. He volunteered his will away.
However, Scorpia, Spinerella, and Mermista were all able to "defy" the chip.
Could it be that this isn't because of the chips being dogshit, and Micah having a skill issue, but it is instead because the Princesses are physiologically very different to normal Etherians? They have a natural resistance to the chips?
If Horde Prime had chipped Glimmer instead of Catra, would he have discovered more glitches early on and patched them out?
