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>>1709
George Lucas hated moral relativism and shades of grey for almost the entire lifespan of the EU, and Leland Che enforced his viewpoint pretty harshly. Anybody who turned preached something like the Potentium Theory or a rainbow spectrum of the Force was retconned either by a blurb in a more recent book or an official Word of God correction of the record to have been misled, secretly Dark Side, or ignorant. "Grey Jedi" was redefined as a Light Side Jedi who didn't strictly follow the prescribed rules of the Jedi Order such as Qui-gon didn't. But even if the Jedi weren't always correct, it was at least C-canon that their point of view was the "most" correct.
Lucas only started backtracking on that towards the end of Clone Wars when he said that the Mortis Arc contained the theme that the Light Side and Dark Side were both necessary and needed to be kept in rough equilibrium. That's a total reversal from his earlier position that the Dark Side was unnatural cancer and "balance" just meant the Light destroying it altogether.
I'm not even sure it's "Disney" that doesn't want to go into middle ground and shades of grey since they own plenty of other bought properties that explore such themes. Instead I think the LucasArts stewards themselves are too scared of deviating from what they think are Lucas' blue prints. Even Dave Filoni, who gets /our guy/ praise is afraid of featuring Sith spirits in the cartoons because Lucas didn't think that Dark Siders should be allowed to persist after dying.
That's been my problem with the New (tm) Canon in a nutshell: Everything is played ultra-conservative unless it's a standalone novel.