To be very specific on ending help, that is exactly why you didn’t get the activist ending. Stat specific spoilers: If your human army reputation is higher than (activist reputation -10) you will get the human army intervention over the activist intervention. To get the activists ending, you must have over 73 activist rep OR (over 54 activist rep AND call the activists for help in chapter 11’s communications room scene)
This is not the case. Looking at the code, you may have been looking at a commented out line which referenced *comment *if (activist_advocacy “neutral”) so I can see where the confusion came from.
Just to be clear, you do NOT need to tell the activists to back off to get their ending. You just need to have a very high rep with them and a lower rep with the military.