It's actually kind of a hard philosophical question to ask whether it's dumber to survive being cut in half and falling down a pit because of a "Sith healing trance" or to actually die in the pit and have your body vaporized but then come back as a clone https://twitter.com/ObsKenobs/status/1246796157797445637

Like seeing Darth Maul with his robot legs is kind of respectable in a way

It's self-explanatory and very bold in its absurdity

"Yes, I was still alive and I built a cyborg lower half"

Whereas having no explanation, explicit or implied, other than "Somehow Palpatine has returned" is extremely cowardly, but cowardly to such an extent that it wraps around back to admirable audacity

"Yeah you're gonna have to buy that novelization"