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I'd have to re-watch bad batch, because I can't remember if directly said. But you'd think a part of the empire is afraid of how easy it was for them to have the Clones turn on the Republic and Jedi, and fear that someone could do that to them.
Obviously the droid armies had reliability issues, and were probably exposed to the same weakness of programable betrayal.
Brainwash some humans, that's gonna take time to undo, can't just turn a whole army against their current leadership all at once.
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The Clones didn't betray the republic, and their loyalty was to the seated Commander and Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic who was Palpatine.
The chips were there to ensure that when the time came for Order 66 to be enacted that there would be no betrayal of the Republic, or the government by Clones who might refuse to follow the lawful order of the Chancellor, which we saw was a possibility.
When the chip was activated it basically lobotomized the Soldiers and made them like living droids who would only obey the commands of the Republic turned to Empire's lawful orders.
That's why you saw the clones as changed in the bad batch. They lost their ability to question orders, and they became more vicious and single minded.
The only reason why Palpatine had to worry was because the rest of the orders that were programmed into them.
So for example there was order 65
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“In the event of either (i) a majority in the Senate declaring the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) to be unfit to issue orders, or (ii) the Security Council declaring him to be unfit to issue orders, and an authenticated order being received by the GAR, commanders shall be authorized to detain the Supreme Commander, with lethal force if necessary, and command of the GAR shall fall to the acting Chancellor until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv).”
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However after the events of Order 66, the Senate could no longer declare Palpatine as unfit and issue the command for the detainment of the Supreme Chancellor, because the Senate after the rise of the Empire could no longer submit decrees or laws. They could somewhat debate and rubber stamp decrees and laws submitted by Palpatine but had no other authority beyond enacting Palpatine's laws and orders in their home sectors.
But Palpatine didn't neccessarily trust the clones, he felt that there was a chance that they were contaminated by the Jedi and might hold some loyalty to their former Jedi Generals.
But the interesting thing is that the chip probably wasn't needed by the time the war wound down. The Clones saw themselves as being commanded by inexperienced Generals who got a lot of them killed. Jedi like Krell and others saw the Clones as slaves and robots good for only fighting and dying. I'm pretty sure that if a story came down from Palpatine about the betrayal of the Jedi and enacted Order 66 that a lot of the clones would have no problem executing their Jedi Generals.