Very good thread by @LaurenBinDC making the point far better than I did in my initial, sarcastic tweet:

Western concern over the conflict in Tigray does not equate with support for the TPLF https://twitter.com/LaurenBinDC/status/1350449488041807873

If I’m sarcastic, it’s only because I was always more pessimistic about Abiy’s tenure than many in Washington, less due to any of his personal failings than the fact that it seemed the issues were too big for any single reformer

But more sincerely…

The hope that Western officials (to say nothing of Ethiopians at home and in the diaspora) put in Abiy spoke to a genuine desire to see Ethiopia transcend a violent, authoritarian past

Hence the concern of many foreign observers over the ongoing conflict