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I think you're misunderstanding. They "hate" their villains in that they seem intentionally ignorant to their motives and display them as ultimately evil and deserving of death. The death of the two flecs was supposed to be a cool badass moment. Sieve grieving for Mace by finishing their job was posed as him being a deranged monster.
>Mace never loses focus of his objective, even after his body is split in half, leaving Lake with no choice but to kill him. Neither I think is presented as being in the wrong, whether Mace believes his job to be righteous doesn't (and shouldn't) matter to Lake.
Lake's entire storyline is a conflict against her nature as a Train's denizen. And Mace exists to that her function is maintained
this is exactly my point, there is reason for Mace's actions, none of those reasons are selfish or sadistic, but the way the scenes are written it makes it seem like that's not the case—that the cops are evil and Lake is good, when, as you put, is the case. Hence why I'm talking about the disconnect between these ideas in the writing. It's like one person wanted a morally grey conflict but others didn't, so you have these characters that have reasons to be sympathized but the show almost seems unaware of it. We get the same thing in book 3 where we get these instances and nuggets of story about Simon but then we see the show portray him as an irredeemable monster. It feels like the writers weren't communicating or cooperating in what they wanted to do with the antagonists
