tbf, Tacitus also did praise the Germanic tribes, but he did so as a means of contrast with his own 'decadent' Roman society which had gotten too used to 'civilization' and 'poor people having rights'; while Tacitus imagined the 'barbarians' as being unsullied by such 'niceties'.

... in part, yes, because they lived in a frozen waste that no one would voluntarily go to, lmao.