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>So when she leaves to tell Rome to back the fuck off because they're degenerate fuckheads, Mordred throws her own tantrum and rallies all the unhappy little lordlings, who are sour that Artoria won't continue supporting their privileged lifestyles and everything just collapses after that.
I just want to point out one error in this: Artoria was pursuing Lancelot to Rome, not going after the Romans because Romans. Lucius Tiberius and his army of giants, as far as we know, doesn't exist in her version, and is exclusive to Arthur's version. She also has slightly less giant monsters running around (either in terms of quality or quantity, we don't really know). That's the reason why he has the Giant Beast Hunting skill while she does not.
Your treatment is a little unfair to the other knights - specifically to the original trio of Bedivere, Gawain, and Kay. It's the "new blood" of foreign knights - Lancelot, Tristan, and the others - who had the problem. We don't really know enough about Gaheris or Gareth, Gawain's siblings, but we do know that they were at least close enough to remain after many of the others left, and that they ended up killed by Lancelot in his bitchfit.
Gawain was stupidly loyal to the King, and that was his major problem. He committed himself entirely to her as the ideal knight, and was her chosen successor to take on the role of King in the event of her passing. His problem was that he would never question her, no matter what. He knew her better than many of the others, but he didn't really "know" her, because he was an "ideal knight" who didn't understand the smaller things of the world.
Bedivere, in contrast, did. We get to see more glimpses of that with Camelot, as well as from the materials. He never viewed Artoria as being an inhuman being, but at the same time, because she took on the burdens of those around her, he did not recognize until later just how much she was suffering. But he was one of the few to see her smile during her years of kingship, and one of the few that followed her to the very end for that reason. Camelot's dialogue with Gawain implies that even the other knights (or at least Gawain) understood that Bedivere was the one who had the best connection with the King, on a human level.
Kay is the most interesting matter, because he was there at the very start. He knew the circumstances of her birth, he knew of her being a woman, he knew of her eventual fate. He knew that she was something other than human, but at the same time, he saw her humanity. He saw her when she was still young and idealistic, and was with her in her days as the 'Princess Knight'. He looked after her when she was sick, and helped her in training. And that was the reason when, on the day of selection, he tried to pull Caliburn, as a last ditch effort to protect her, even knowing it wouldn't answer him. That was why he gave her a final chance to return home, and leave the tourney to decide the next king. He was the sole person to see his sister blend in among the townsfolk as nothing more than another, smiling girl. He was the person who knew, given the chance, she would grow into a beautiful woman. But because of that proximity, he knew how Merlin and Uther had schemed to dictate the course of her life. While she accepted that fact, he never could, and was disgusted by it. He was sick to learn that in the few hours of sleep she would take, Merlin was there in her dreams, training her. He became sick not because of her, but because of what everyone else had made her, to suit their own interests. Notably, in Camelot/Zero, he was one of the Knights that stood against the Lion King - he understood immediately that she was the absolute end result that he despised the most, of "a King Arthur absolutely stripped of all humanity".
It's easy to blame the knights, but they weren't the ones that screwed her. It was Uther and Merlin who were solely responsible for making her the way she became, and it was because of the way she became - someone who wished to take on the full suffering of others - that she never came to others for help. Remember - one of the important factors in Fate Route is her and Shirou coming to trust each other. He can't just rush in like a retard to protect her, but she also has to rely on him. She may be the strongest sword, but it's the sheathe that's more important. Without it, you can't overcome the harsh truth of the world (i.e.: Ea vs. Excalibur, Ea vs. Avalon). Unfortunately, her instructor was the fundamentally inhuman Merlin. Had it just been Ector and Kay, she may have been better able to accept what happened at Camlann without getting shot forward in time to find salvation eating rice bowls and getting fucked by a pair of high schoolers in Japan.