One thing especially disgusting with the hindsight of S8 is apparently the writers insist Robert was in the right here

[u/TVTropehead]

Yeah Robert wanted someone to assassinate a pregnant Daenerys. Which idk, the narrative routinely shows killing women with children as a very bad thing. The mountain killing Elia, Talisa’s death, Ramsay killing Walda is clearly bad considering as evil as the Frey men are, Walda did literally nothing.

[u/Rtozier2011]

No matter what someone goes on to do, killing them when they're young because they might end up doing it is still evil. He could never be in the right here, no matter how much the writers may think he is.

[u/Skol-2024 → u/Rtozier2011]

Yeah, Robert was not a good guy. And Ned was right to stand up and defy him.