[S2 spoilers] So, isn't Zaun still pretty much screwed in the finale?

From the very start of the series we see oppression of the people of Zaun by Piltover's unjust system and I really thought that, since subsequent Series' are going to take place in other regions of Runterra, we would see some kind of resolution to this conflict in season 2. As act 3 was wrapping up I started to worry that we'll just get Caitlyn issuing some sort of order that magically improves things and 2 sides just forgive each other for everything as part of ending montage. What we ended up getting I think is much better but... is it really a resolution at all?

Only thing we really see for sure is Sevika joining the council, which is great, we love seeing a bad bitch win, but what does this actually entail? Throughout the series the Piltover council has been shown to be very flawed and unjust, it's just largely unqualified aristocrats making decisions almost entirely in the interest of themselves and their clan/company/etc. I honestly thought that the resolution would be replacement of the council by some sort of Senate/Parliament or even Roman Republic style Tribunes, any sort of institution that acts in the interest of the people, however it seems that with the exception of Sevika the new council is not particularly different from the old.

At first mere presence of Sevika on the council appears as a massive improvement over the situation at the start of the series, Zaunites now have an actual representative who can protect their interests, except, how is she supposed to actually do that? Council seems to make all decisions via simple majority and Sevika is all alone opposed to 6 councillors from Piltover whose interests still largely contradict those of Zaun and in the aftermath of Silco's death we saw that while Sevika was very capable at running what remained of his empire she lacked political skills to bring in line other leaders. And that's not even the end of it, we've also been shown with Heiberdinger that councillors can be voted off by unanimous decision, so if Sevika actually tries to do something significant on her own, like how Jayce was conducting his corruption investigation, other councillors would simply remove her without an ally like Mel.

Sevika and the council aside however, we still have the issue of increased animosity between the 2 sides. We the audience know that almost the entire conflict was manipulated by Noxus, but there isn't any actual evidence that attack at the memorial at the start of Season 2 was orchestrated by them, and even if it was, that was still a brutal massacre of Piltover civilians committed by Zaunites. Jinx's earlier killing of the Councillors had no Noxian involvement at all and as far as Piltover knows she was never punished for it and Zaunites still revere her for it. Caitlyn also personally committed acts of chemical warfare against people of Zaun and, whether her emergency dictatorship was manipulated by Noxus or not, it still had her Enforcers killing and torturing Zaunites with approval of people of Piltover. This kind of mutual animosity can't disappear after a victory over common enemy, just temporarily cool off until some form of compromise can be reached and the new Council with 6 representatives of Piltover vs only 1 representative of Zaun is very unlikely to provide such compromise.

I really want to stress here that I am not disappointed that we didn't get a happy ending, no, I think this series was too good to end with Piltover and Zaun somehow reaching stable harmony, I am glad that didn't happen. But if we're really leaving this region for future series, then what did actually end up happening? The two sides now have even more reasons to hate each other and the only concession to Zaun that we know of for sure is actually quite insignificant. This is not the resolution I could have guessed based on season 1.