I have not yet read the RotS novelization (it's on my bucket list).
I HAVE frequently come across the following quote from Count Dooku, said to Palpatine:
The Jedi Order's problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it's overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, "Why are we not acting to stop this?" Live alongside for corruption too long, and you no longer notice the stench. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine, but they can help the slavemasters.
This quote, of course, tends to be discussed as "you know, Dooku has a point."
My opinion? Dooku gave up all his credibility with judgments like these when he himself started deliberately causing the corruption and evils and slavery and endless wars.
To put it another way: the quote "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" falls kinda flat when the person saying it is actively contributing to the evil.
Especially since Yoda and most of the other Jedi WERE doing something: they were trying to stop Dooku.
