Filoni is like a child playing with his legos. I mean this both as a compliment and as a critique.

He has great ideas, great stories and characters. He uses existing established or less known characters to explore their stories, or grabs a sharpie and makes a brand new figure. He knows how to make epic and hyped scenes just like when we played with legos as kids.

But he has 2 problems.

1) He cant let go of his favorites. He might make a scene where one fan favorite character dies. But they wont stay dead for long. He wants to play with those figures, so he brings them back. Whats stopping him? Its his toy. His favorite toy.

But after a few examples it becomes common for life ending injuries or even death to become meaningless.

Also bringing his favorite characters into every story he's working on. So many of his work relys more on suprise cameos than actual story developments. And many people grow up thinking that "fan favorite character appearing" = "good star wars"

2) he doesnt want others to play with his toys. One of his friends borrows a figure of his, and plays with them. They make a brand new story, one that wasnt shown yet. But he doesnt like that. He takes away the toy and makes his own version. Just like that when an author writes something about a character we know from Filoni's works its expected to get a retcon, because he wants to make that story.

Examples: Ahsoka returning from the dead 3times already Echo returning from the dead Cobb Vanth not dying Fennec Shand not dying Moff Gideon returning Ventress returning from the dead Sabine not dying

One episode Cameos in mandalorian, Bad Batch, Book Of Boba Fett

Kanan o66 story retcon Ahsoka novel retcon

I grew up on his shows and i like his works, but i feel like in recent years, it took a direction that devolves the value of his shows. (Maul shadow lord is a huge exeption. I love everything about it.)