Foote defended the series against critics when it came out. He had to realize that the show wasn’t going to just be the Confederate point of view over and over again.
Foote was paid well for collaborating in the Burns propaganda deception. He needed the money badly and he kept his mouth shut about Burns hacks cutting his remarks to say the opposite of what he really said. When you shake hands with the devil count your fingers afterward. Burns is just woke communist whore.