Bar Nativ comes very close in this article.
He definitely gets the main idea of the Mishne Tora – to create a definitive, encyclopedic textbook of the Jewish legal system for practical use – but misses the main point of why such a book is valuable.
Not (just) to resolve disputes by providing information – but in doing so to free Jewish communities from the political monopoly of the Geonate and from the local tyranny of poorly educated rabbis pushing their personal opinions as law from Sinai.
And from this it’s clear why the book faced so much opposition. Not (just) because Rambam’s jurisprudence and Talmudic hermeneutic were opaque to some (but by no means most) of his readers, mamy of whom were often accustomed to a variety of practices and policies at odds with what he recorded.
But because the very existence of the book itself threatened the stranglehold of bad leaders using their knowledge to consolidate power and relying on the relative ignorance of the communities dependant upon them, for their continued social status and position. Publishing an accessible, authoritative guide to Jewish law challenged the local rabbi to justify their decisions against an objective, independent benchmark – and some folks just couldn’t have that.
H/t Nachman Davies
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/maimonides_revolution/