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You can largely blame Disney for that one. Lucas has been extremely explicit and direct that the dark side and the sith are a corrupting influence on the natural balance of the force and the universe the Jedi serve.
Anakin's entire fall was a decision to place his own selfish desires over his greater roll and duty as the chosen one and hence: it would forever dominate his destiny. Hence it took a supreme act of selflessness and of sacrifice to bring the force back into balance.
People got confused because "well guess balance can only mean equal parts light and dark" and Disney just rolled with it.
He also got tricked into being evil by Palpatine vague notion that he could stop Natalie Portman from dying in childbirth if he was more evil.
It is established that Anakin's politics are somewhat fashy, but that fact that he believes that Palpatine should force the Senate into doing things is never really examined beyond the one conversation where he brings it up. I think Lucas had a bunch of half-formed ideas about Anakin's fall but he didn't know how to fully develop them.
Lucas having half formed ideas that he didn't know how to develop is the prequels
Lucas later retconned that, voluntarily, in a terrible Clone Wars episode involving an evil moon, a good moon, and a pompous magic family with a daddy figure lecturing his kids about how they each need to have just enough evil in their diet for a balanced breakfast.