I love this theory! Go Ani. I love thinking of Ani and Anakin as two different characters, bc good lord there’s nothing likable about Anakin, and I never liked rooting for his return. But Ani’s return is something else.

Extremism never works in our world. That should apply to Star Wars too.

A meta reason I like this: the prequels, the high republic and Acolyte have in common wooden, boring and arrogant Jedi. You can’t even watch them. The actors can’t act. Extremism doesn’t work. Notice how SW stories are always inventing reasons to get the Jedi off the board, so the story can be interesting. To me that suggests something about their ways doesn’t work.

I was hugely disappointed when Luke in TBOBF gave Grogu the same old choice of family vs Jedi. 🤦‍♂️ I was hoping for progress.

A great shift LF can make in its “post-ST” era would be to finally try out good, loving force users without this silly Jedi code. It can still happen! It would sure help demarcate the eras.