It really isn't. When you have a gigantic universe full of lore, it's ok to try different ideas rather than repeating the same concepts with the same type of characters doing the same things.
Star Wars isn't anything like Jurassic Park or Terminator. It's set in a whole universe with hundreds of planets and alien life.
Jedi isn't 'Star Wars'. Rebels Vs Empire is Star Wars, the Jedi and Sith are part of that but doesn't mean it needs it. People who scream for Jedi and Sith in every Star Wars content remind me of those weird fans playing with light sabers in a parking lot.
I'm not screaming for it. The shows, games, etc, that don't have them are fine to do so. I'm just saying, to me personally, the products that don't have anything to do with them aren't for me. I even complimented Andor.
George Lucas created Star Wars solely to tell the story of Anakin Skywalker (Starkiller as he was originally meant to be called). His whole story and the Jedi and Sith revolving around it are Star Wars to the creator and the majority of fans. A product without any of that will always be less popular. The OG 6 could've just been called Skywalker 1-6 rather than Star Wars because it wasn't about the universe. It was about two specific characters.
Another example is like doing a Hogwarts movie with no Harry Potter (Fantastic Beasts was it called?). You can do it, and it may even be good, but some things/characters are just integral to a franchise.
There's nothing wrong with it, I know. I don't even blame them for doing it because they've wore out the appeal of the Jedi/Sith. That doesn't change the fact that, for a lot of us, that stuff is still a key part of what makes Star Wars what it is/was.
Andor and Rogue One feel more like Star Wars than anything since The Return Of The Jedi.
Probably because they are directly tied to that fecking story and go directly into A New Hope, an absolutely incredible movie. Both were absolutely superb and really should have been the road map for Disney in what to do with the franchise. Enrich the originals.
Well, I was only talking about Andor myself as I hadn't seen RO. I think two things can be true. Andor is the best thing Disney have done with SW in terms of writing, but it also didn't feel like SW, but a lot of people could take that as a compliment because SW is in such a state that not being able to liken it to the franchise is a compliment in and of itself.
I would take Andor any day over anything else they've produced that has Jedi in it. I'd just like both!