Irrelevant. The State doesn’t have the right to invalidate their lived experience as Caldari, living in the way traditional Caldari lived.
Nor does the State have the right to invalidate Adams’ experience as a Caldari. You can say he’s a piss-poor Caldari, but he remains Caldari.
I think they’re a tragic, cautionary tale. Many of their leadership, we’ve learned, started off trying to use appeasement and supplication as a way to protect their people and the few Starkmanir who weren’t on Starkman Prime. But you can’t maintain that level of secrecy and keep the masses in the know. Do I think the Ammatar have honor? Some, in their way. It’s not the same kind of honor, or same matters of honor, that the Tribes espouse (including the restored Nefantar), but there is a kind of honor there.
Am I proud of them? The Starkmanir live, so I’m proud of some of them, and of the Nefantar. The rest… I pity. Because they weren’t traitors or self-serving cowards. They were martyrs, in their way, sacrificed on the altar of necessity.