I don't this to devolve into a silly argument by picking apart your comments, but I do want to respond to why I don't find any of these things impressive.

Instead of the heroes trying to bring down the government they realize that doing so would cause more harm then good, and have to begrudgingly accept the status quo.

Presenting a no-win scenario and having no one win does not compel me. It's probably better than having the same scenario and letting them win anyway, but that's not much of a bar to clear.

Psychopaths in the real world tend to be high performing and charismatic

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's a selection effect - the psychopaths that aren't high performing get nowhere because everyone can tell they're nuts, whereas the ones that are can exploit social systems to succeed. Regardless, I didn't find Makishima believable, nor his motivation particularly coherent.

it's clearly explained to be a function of the stress the society such a messed up society creates

Stress does not make you carefully plan and cover up murdering a classmate and arranging their preserved body parts into "art". That's wacky schlock writing. Nor was their any suggestion that Cyborg Murderboss was under any particular stress - he just liked to kill people for kicks. The bullied factory worker was just about passable as this, but it still felt incredibly rushed and ham fisted to me.

I also take issue with the fact that they only deal with violence - specifically murder. That could be a selection effect for drama of course, but as far as I can recall there's no suggestion they deal with anything else at all. And in any case it's a deliberate selection effect, so as far as I'm concerned that's fair game for criticism. This presents a horribly distorted idea of law and morality, so if the show wants to comment on that then I think it does a very poor job.

I think you aren't giving enough credit to Ginoza, Akane or Kogami

Akane develops when she's forced to take on Kogami's role of magically finding the solutions to puzzles after he leaves. Her shift from naive and innocent rookie to battle hardened expert wasn't awful, but it was far too stark for me to call it well handled. Ginoza's side was alright, but not exactly a highlight. Kogami didn't change - he was pretty much after Makishima the whole time, when he had the chance.

But yeah, on the whole the goodies were serviceable characters, just not particularly interesting ones.