Sorry, Ezra's distracted by the first part, and openly staring. Sometimes wonder? How is this a question?

"Uh, I'm like 90% sure Sidious deliberately emotionally cripples and isolates his apprentices, so they'll be dependent on him. I don't think it's coincidence that the first fight he sent Maul to pick, so publically, was to murder the former apprentice of the Jedi Master he recruited to be his next Sith apprentice."