Turns out there was a small amount of "fuck this current timeline" in the Andor writing for season 2
The speech for Mothma was written at the end of 2020/early 2021
https://deadline.com/2025/08/andor-writer-explains-mon-mothma-senate-speech-1236498910/
“When I’m writing that speech, I’m pissed off. I’m pissed off right now,” said Gilroy during the recent Sublime Primetime Drama Panel at the Writers Guild in Los Angeles. “What this character has seen through the course of the show is her senate colleagues abandoning everything they believe out of expediency and cowardice and leaving their constituents to pure evil, to an emperor who used to be a politician. So as I’m writing the speech, which is really the climax of that episode, I’m also deeply aware … of what was going on in our world at that time. I’m watching Senators being held to a standard of things of what they [said they once] believed in, and then utterly abandon them out of expediency and cowardice.”