It’s an interesting point about target audiences. It seems every fanboy thinks he should be the target audience for every movie and show. When that is not the case, tantrums follow.

Take Acolyte. I read terrible headlines about it. I still see them. Then I watched the show. The only thing wrong with it is that it definitely has a target audience: pre-teen girls. There is no reason why pre-teen girls shouldn't be included in the SW audience, especially under Disney ownership.

Andor, as noted, has a target audience of adults. No cuddly aliens, rather political machinations and labor camps in space. I love political sci fi, so I am a fan of the Dune movies, Foundation and Andor.

I was 9 when SW came out. I was such a SW kid that I had the original Jawa action figure with a removable cloth coat. No one even re that. How I wish I'd kept it in its original packaging. My dad got me a bootleg VCR copy of SW because there was no VCR SW available. The quality was abysmal. I watched it a thousand times. So I've got the SW creds.

The movie that had no target audience? AOTC. The target audience for that was the need to make a trilogy. I thought Phantom was entertaining. ROTS was great with the best soundtrack of all. But AOTC? It was like it was made up as they went along by an executive committee with two goals : figure out what a clone war is and explain how Anakin and Pe overcome their age difference. But what about action? How about an obstacle run for Pe? Great. Let's set it in a factory. What does the factory do? Ask CGI, but it leads to the climax in an arena with some monsters. Great, get the CGI guys on it. Don't we need a script? Nah, they'll dub it in post.

The last 3 were doomed no matter how good or bad they were.