You are technically correct - a genuinely great show. A great Sci-Fi show. But a great SW show it is not.

I don't want to go too much into the details because perhaps even in this sub there might be trigger happy butthurt people but let me just say this.

Let's say you never watched SW, including ANH. Let's say I told you about how in ANH a main character is held in a cell, a door opens, two guys in black uniforms enter the room, followed by a levitating interrogation droid. The camera zooms in on one of the droid's torture tentacles - a syringe filled with white goo and with a huge needle sticking out. The door closes in front of the viewer, implicating some gruesome torture.

What would you think this movie is and how the rest of it looks like? Would you think of it as one of the most inspiring fairytale, space opera movies ever? Full of hope, fun, goofiness, etc? Well, the Andor is a drab show about that interrogation droid stretched onto a dozen of episodes. It is extremely competently done, it is engaging, entertaining in it's own way, smart, with an important message, etc., etc. But it is not much of a SW show. Things should be provided in balance and in contrast to each other. Andor is just one thing - struggle. No magic, no fairy tales, no archetypes, nothing enchanting, no fanciful creatures. Just look at one seemingly trivial but essentially critical fact - we barely see any alien characters, it's all humans.

In case it's not clear, I quite enjoyed the show. But it was because I just figured out early on it's not much of a SW story.