How come there aren’t any natural Shadow Matoran? If the Great Beings had made “Kra-Matoran”, what differences would they have compared to converted Av-Matoran (or other Matoran types)?
Why would you make Matoran who are dark and corrupt?
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So even if there were Matoran of Shadow/Kra-Matoran not made by draining other Matoran of their light, they’d naturally dark and corrupt? I thought that the Shadow Matoran were only so nasty because the Shadow Leeches had drained all their moral light (and Gavla wasn’t exactly pleasant even before then, with Vultraz being worse, to the point that his personality barely changed when he had his light drained), with the Element only gaining negative connections after the Makuta went bad (and expunged their inner light, making themselves unbalanced). Why would the Great Beings create any Shadow-aligned beings at all if the element was inherently associated with evil (not even going into Krika, a certain dragon, the Makuta that Teridax killed for not jumping on board with the plan, Shadow Stealer in his heroic days, etc.) and even if it is associated with anger and aggression, you can be angry and aggressive without being irredeemably evil (assuming that, unlike Shadow Leech victims, that’s not all you have). Edit: Also, I just read that post about Matoran creation, what was preventing the Makuta from just creating new Shadow Matoran from scratch, is there some aspect to the machines/process that make Matoran that prevented the Makuta from just making Matoran of Shadow that way, or is the Element of the Matoran limited to preset options or what?
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also even though at first the makuta had shadow as a power and they were not evil till teridax came along
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There’s a difference between the element of Shadow and inner shadow, just like with the element of Light and inner light. Shadow is simply not one of the elements they made Matoran of, while Light is. Why? I imagine, based on Greg’s answer, that shadow powers tend to lead to evil. After all, the only beings we’ve ever seen with natural shadow Powers – Darkness and Shadow Stealer – have become at least somewhat evil.
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Well, just off of what Greg has to say, there’s no difference between elemental Shadow and inner Shadow. 
That’s the thing: what, as far as you’d go, does “somewhat evil” mean? The two fellows that you named ended up acting pretty greedy, and probably a little (or very) brutal at times, but so did many, many individuals who didn’t have natural shadow powers. The existence of Darkness and Shadow Stealer, who both were members of the Dark Hunters and thus exposed to/expected to partake in brutality doesn’t necessarily incriminate shadow as an element.