I guess what I’m trying to say is its more akin to being a monk. What we see in the prequels is already a corruption of the Order because they decided to be Star Command. To be balanced truly in the force is not to become a Jedi. Though, that may be what the Jedi aspire to do.

We have plenty of force users that are not/are no longer evil in the Clone Wars and Rebels series. That has been done in canon and handled quite well. With that in mind I can say what we saw in the sequels was pretty crass story-telling. I kind of wish they would have taken way more time to plan them out.