"Capital E" Evil isn't nearly as scary as authors seem to think. All they can do is kill you or hurt you for a bit first. And you can kill them back and it's perfectly morally acceptable, so you could argue that they're less like scary and more like Disneyland if you have the means to take advantage of it.

What is REALLY scary is people in power with an interest in running people's lives and believing they know enough to wield enormous power over affairs in which they have no experience. In particular individuals who tend to be hostile to rival power blocs and suppress dissident views.

Egwene has expressed opposition or acted against all of the following:
- People objecting to Aes Sedai trespassing on their lands
- People training channelers on their own, or channelers serving their homelands like everyone else
- Aes Sedai being permitted to quit being Aes Sedai and return to their homelands
- Aes Sedai sharing their One Power knowledge with people who have not personally instructed Egwene al'Vere
- Rand outlawing racially motivated murder and theft
- Aes Sedai restraining captured spies while attempting to keep their activity secret from the Black Ajah
- Aes Sedai factions keeping their leaders secret from the retribution of the Amyrlin Seat
- Punishing women who question the Amyrlin Seat in the Hall of the Tower
- Questioning the Amyrlin Seat in the Hall of the Tower
- Smiling when the Amyrlin Seat chastises an enemy
- Raising rebellion against the Amyrlin Seat
- Failing to declare war against the Amyrlin Seat
- Supporting the Amyrlin Seat in the name of unity-in-times-of-crisis
- Opposing the Amyrlin Seat in a time of crisis

This person holds the most powerful office in the world that has existed for more than three years. How is that not scary?