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I’d say disarming Mace could be a crime of passion. Anakin went there to ensure Mace didn’t kill Sidious, even pointed out what Mace was about to do was illegal, then acted in a way that he knew would be the death of Mace.
But the Temple has conspiracy and premeditation. Sidious comments that once the Jedi find out what has happened to Mace they’ll swarm and kill them both, so they have to move quickly. Also promises by doing this, Anakin will gain strength in his new “religion” so he can save Padme. He might be running low on sleep but he still had time to assemble the 501st and aura farm the fuck out of his entrance.
Look Anakin post episode 2 aura farms like a motherfucker, doesn't matter if it's EU or Canon he is going in there to make everyone look bad and it scales inversely with the number of limbs he has. Regardless given how many braindead actions I've made due to sleep deprivation Anakin may have very well have shutdown after getting mace killed if Palpatine didn't give him directions. But fair enough regardless of any other factors everything can trace back to Palpatine and to an extent Mace not giving Anakin something to do in the meantime while he dealt with Palpatine. Seriously Mace should've dumped Anakin on Cin Drallig or Jocasta Nu while he went to crack open a boy with the cold ones.
Mace isn’t known for great decisions. This all good have been avoided if he’d granted Anakin the rank of master. Might even have not gotten to the standoff if Mace had taken the information “hey, the Sith Lord behind both sides of the war is the dude in charge of the Republic, and presumably ridiculously OP” and mobbed in with three dudes who’s defensive strategy was “die”. It’s noteworthy that when Mace and crew enter, only Mace is aura farming. Dooku never aura farmed; died. Maul aura farms like a motherfucker; just keeps coming back. What was Lucas telling us?
Honestly this discussion is kinda making me want to see a resurrection of the old Star Wars What if comics. Make them into books broken into EU and canon continuities, there's certainly a market for it given how many What If channels there are on YouTube focused on it.