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I mean, I wouldn't say the Garlean Empire (or even any Empire analog in FF barring I suppose the original one) is all evil without any good. But being an empire inevitably means you're going to be evil. Ignoring the fact that simply that much power isn't maintained by benevolent means, being part of a group with that much power means it's really hard to have a bad guy strong enough to challenge it.

As far as Emet goes I wouldn't say any of those villains are "evil because they're evil". The closest is Kefka but there is still a reason for his being a villain. Edea isn't a villain, you mean Ultimecia, and she too has reasons/justifications for her actions. But I would add as well that having reasons doesn't stop them from being evil either. Emet is still evil, all of them are still evil. The empires, even without being solely evil, are still overall an evil force. Fixing the empire in XIV is about utterly dismantling it, reducing its reach ridiculously, reducing its power ridiculously, creating a brand new culture just about, so on and so forth.

With regards to the Eorzeans versus the Garleans, the Eorzeans don't really just go and kill a Beast Tribe because they're a Beast Tribe, which is what the Garleans do. They fight them when they attack (and to be fair they are justified at times), but the Garleans modus operandi is flat genocide, so it's not really a "both are equally right" kind of thing. If everything was changed from the ground up you could certainly pull it off, but as is the current empire needs to be demolished and whatever is built from its ashes is probably not going to resemble it except somewhat superficially.