You said you found Andor to be "very good Star Wars" and Rogue One "good" and followed this up by wishing for this kind of quality productions moving forward. I simply disagreed with your overall claim. Even if you want to make it all about the writing I still don't agree.
Good writing is supposed to start with interesting and (at least somewhat) likeable characters of which Andor had precisely zero i.m.o. Then we need an interesting setting. Andor had the most boring scrapyard housing and cheap looking outdoor forest camp in SW history. I believe they should've developed this into a regular period drama rather than a Star Wars project (They didn't even bother to modify the real world firearms). Then things need to move on at a pace that lets the protagonist (oops, there wasn't one in Andor...) leave this boring, meaningless life behind and move on to more interesting things (While I personally dropped out early I understand this didn't happen during the entirety of season 1). Then there's the dialogue which is so full of unnecessary padding and cringy banter my ears almost cried in despair. Everyone sounds as if they'd rather kill themselves than doing anything useful with their lives. Hell, even that funky looking red droid seemed depressed. I'd take Lucas' wonkiest attempts at mimicking human dialogue over this bore-fest any day of the week, just as long as the story goes someplace worthwhile. Andor to me was just VERY slow, pretentious and extremely boring and yes; it was all firmly "grounded" in the writing. Also, Stellan Skarsgård is highly overrated...
