Aaron Griffin yyyyyeah. I think I understand what you’re saying.
But correct: “Night” doesn’t have a goal; it’s has a methodology. Folks who are criminals do crime-y things. They’re not a unified supervillain crew. Same with the rest.
Really the factions, I think, exist to prompt different move sets and to, again, juice the situation with material. You advance by checking off all four Factions, which means to advance you have to introduce content that brings along with it four different move sets.
But I wouldn’t at all think of the factions as really wanting anything at all.