Some will call this revisionism, but if you listen to him it’s clear Blatter genuinely cared about football and believed he was doing what was necessary for the greater good (an interesting factoid is that he had his eyes on winning the Nobel Peace Prize)
Additionally, and this is definitely revisionism, there are people more knowledgeable than me who say there were some lines Blatter would never cross and, while this speculation, that he wouldn’t have tolerated things like Omar Artan being denied entry to the US or the mistreatment of the Iran team