We always dump crap on the Observants. So how about this?
About 99% of the Observants are complete assclowns, and wanting to control everything and being pretty much micro-managing everything. To the point no one in the Ghost Zone likes them, even Clockwork. Literally no one like the arrogant little eyeballs.
Only except there's literally only ONE Observant who actually does his job, and is not arrogant no matter what.
Like, imagine there - out of the infinite amount of Observants, there is the ONE OBSERVANT who actually does his job. This one actively follows the Oath of only having to Observe. But also follows the rules, and knows that some things need to change.
Unlike the OTHER Observants who wish to stick that Summoning Cirlces are the biggest thing there is in the past few trillions of eons.
That one Observant, unlike the others, will give advice - tips, but not outright force anyone to do anything. But again, stickler for the rules. He will have a headache each time Phantom does anything reckless.
Not the, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" kind of way. More like, "Please, don't do that - that's incredibly stupid."
But that Observant won't do thing for good, obviously. Just keep things in CHECK - make sure the multiverse doesn't freaking explode. True Neutral, not chaotic or evil or good. Just Pure Neutral.
The PROBLEM with being the only Observant who follows the Oath, Rules and KNOWS what he's doing is that anytime any OTHER Observant does anything stupid - his eyeball is going to pop out from his face from the stupidity of the Council.
And he's so outvoted by the other Observants, that everyone just BELIEVES all of them are bad. Not even CLOCKWORK knows about him, so every time the Observants try to be controlling - Dave the Observant is really tempted to strangle them for doing something so idiotic.
Think of it like a job. This one Observant actually knows what he's doing, what to do, and how to do it BETTER than the 'superior upstairs' because he has EXPERIENCE. Unlike those egotistical eyeballs.
And even worse, is when he DOES try to get involved - he gets pushed aside because they're assuming ALL of the Eyeballs are like this and he can't get a word in!
All he hopes is that ONE DAY - He'll be able to FIX whatever happened in the past few trillions of eons ago, because this is a disaster.