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[Star Wars] Could Palpatine have just eroded the Jedi council's political power while working to disillusion the younger generation of knights instead of purging them from the Galaxy?

Obviously, his plan worked, so it's hard to argue with the results. But it seems as though Palpatine's plan was needlessly convoluted. I imagine that discrediting and undermining the council probably would've been easier and more full proof than starting a war that you're running on both sides, trusting that an entire army is brainwashed enough to carry out your orders, and banking that one guy would switch sides in such a way as to convince an entire galactic Senate to cede it's power.
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Palpatine didn't want to slowly wither away the Jedi, he wanted them to be eradicated in one violent, fell stroke. He wanted to see death and destruction. He wanted them to feel betrayed by those they thought closest to them. And above all, he wanted to pull it off in a way that proved he was the master manipulator. Remember Luke correctly surmised that Palpatine's greatest weakness was his overconfidence in his power. Hubris was always a core part of Palpatine's actions, and ultimately it would lead to his downfall, but he couldn't see that. That said, his plan was the only one he would tolerate because it was the plan that he came up with and stoked his ego the greatest, anything less would be unthinkable in his eyes.