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Rather than talk about SGS, let's talk about the setting. The very idea of Precious, of historical artifacts that are also power sources, is almost inevitably going to make the people chasing them look bad. Instead of looking like hero-adventurers, in the Indiana Jones mold, they're going to look like people out to hoard all the power for themselves. Pursuing power for its own sake is a classic villainous trait.
As far as setting goes, I always thought one thing Boukenger could have done to make it less episodic and have more overarching plot was to make all the Preciouses the remnants of the extinct Gordom civilization and SGS wants to keep Gaja from taking them back, and at the same time content with Jaryuu, Dark Shadow and Ashu who are also after them. I don't remember them saying everything in the heroes' arsenal was powered by Preciouses, just the Dual Crusher.
Go a step farther. Let's say SGS doesn't want to have a big warehouse full of quarantined Precious at all. They want people to be able to keep their family heirlooms and museums to keep their cultural artifacts. So someone has invented a scientific method or device that dissipates the stored magical energy in a Precious. It goes from an ancient scroll you can use to power a robot, to an ancient scroll that's just an ancient scroll. In short, Boukenger makes Precious into things utterly useless to the villains.
Maybe they don't have to "depower" the Preciouses, but returning them to their proper owners sounds like a good idea. Maybe set it in a world where ancient artifacts from legend have started being uncovered at a rapid rate and an organization is set up to save them from the wrong hands.
You can put me in the camp of liking Boukenger initially for "not being like the then most recent shows" No screaming Red, less wackiness, etc. I don't know how much I'd like it if I gave another look. But I do like the mechas myself. Minus the arm swapping. I can somehow buy it more with animals than vehicles, and by then it had gotten a bit tiring anyway; and then there are the pointless Siren and Police, and DaiVoyager. I like a battleship mecha but why make it yet another combiner? Just go the carrier route. It spent most of the time combined as GoGoVoyager anyway.