You can't use 1.0 for examples of what the Garleans have done, because that means it's the same game from 2010 which everyone says it's not.

Stories were retconned like the Azure Dragoon. He was killed in 1.0, but in 3.0 he's alive again. We haven't seen this brainwashing haapen since 1.0 so you have to guess that it was probably retconned as well that they can't do it anymore.