ummm…no.
Rome rightfully saw what this movement was doing to political order on the eastern edges of its empire, and in no way was it going to allow paupers and slaves who converted and were now feeling their oats to suddenly be empowered by a new political movement that preached the last shall be first, the poor are favored by god over the rich, and stripped the Emperor of its status as diety in place of one that flipped the entire socio-political order 180 degs. They were taking no chances with any movement, especially a religious rooted one (they knew full well the implications of that). It was tantamount to turning a blind eye to treason and inevitable revolution.
so they decided post haste to exterminate the movement in its infancy and attempted to do so in a very public display of brutality and gave no quarter, knowing that those same masses have a history of getting back in line at the first hint of negative consequences, this one being particularly heinous.
In no way was it rooted in a disdain of the cocky, arrogant, power seeking personalities that is pretty much unique to American Protestantism by Rome. That’s projecting a unique feature of the present onto the past.