Because it's so so so important to my enjoyment of this series that the villains are actually evil, and it's equally important to my interest in Heed as a character that buried inside that lying, cheating, manipulative, desperately lonely, deeply broken person, is someone who is exceptionally sensitive and empathetic, who hates to see suffering and wants to do good but was never given the chance to learn how. Yes, the show tells us that she became a hero to chase Goldheart, but this is told to us through Flug's eyes. I think this is an example of Flug's emotions getting the better of him- itself interesting, since he brands himself as the purely logical type- with regards to his intense hatred and jealousy of Goldheart and his unexplored tension with Heed herself. He is projecting, inflating the importance of his hated rival without realizing he's doing it, while (I believe) Heed is less in love with Goldheart as what he represents- kindness, heroism, and good. Goldheart is merely an icon, the perfect representation of everything she aspires to be. I feel that she only has real feelings for Flug and is only trying to make herself love Goldheart; the former is a real, raw connection she cannot accept because it would mean loving evil while the latter is the perfect paragon she "should" be in love with instead. In truth, she became a hero because she could not bear to be a villain any longer. She hated who she was at the Institute more than at any other point in her life (which is an accomplishment) and the things she had to do there and the guilt that came with them were slowly killing her. Flug, emotionally oblivious as always, never noticed, and since he was the only person who might have cared, Cecilia was effectively completely alone. Then she saw Goldheart, and realized she could be better, prompting her defection; however, she was still broken inside and therefore became the two-faced brainwashing liar we see in the Heedeous Heart (see my previous post here for details on how I think this happened). In short, despite her villainous behavior, I think becoming a villain outright would not be a fitting end for Heed's character arc and in fact would make everything drastically worse for her and everyone around her. I still really want to see her redeemed, but I just think it would be more interesting if she remains a hero while doing so. Perhaps leaving PEACE and being a sort of unrecognized rogue hero or taking over the organization itself.
But then again, all of this is dependent on speculation and extrapolation based on exactly one episode of screen time, and we're getting more content soon that will probably prove me horribly wrong, so what do I know.
That said, I do think she deserves an arc where she fakes her death and becomes an edgy antihero called Heartbreaker for like two seasons. If we want to emulate superhero comics (which I think we should).
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