As someone who's had a low-key Entropist or two since they went in I think there's a few ways to approach the cabal that work.

In practice it's a lot like Herald in that you pretty much have no competitive pk powers but you do have a lot of RP opportunity both within the cabal and without.

You can be a secret entropist, friend to everyone who works behind the scenes to cause chaos. Randomize the exits and call that ranger to come pk the imperial you're learning with.

You can be an outward Entropist, though this can be tough unless you're hero, because everyone know's you're probably down to fight, but your powers aren't really competitive, assuming you even have the equation, but you don't. This character will probably spend a lot of time at the Inn.

I think Ikno was the latter, and I think her issue was that she was down to PK too hard, but got frustrated that the powers just weren't there.

The real issue with Entropy not having goals is the lack of the puzzles. My first entropist had access to puzzles that unlocked powers. More recently those puzzles are MIA. I think you'd see a renewed interest and more RP opportunities as everyone put their heads together to solve them. You'd also get the powergamey types in there desperate to unlock the endgame powers.

Anyway, I don't know why the sudden hatred in chaotic stupid. It's always been around and been the bread and butter of some serial gnome players forever. Shouldn't you all be glad that they're all on their own cb channel now?

Anyway, I'm rambling.