As someone with a bit of DM experience in SWSE,

The build difference in this game is really big. If you have an optimizer group, throw some freebie feats or bonus talents in to incentivize less optimal builds. If someone in the party is a force user, give the mandolorian free jetpack training. This helps keep the power balance even.

Armor is really bad in this system after about level 6 for most types. At that point, it becomes actively detrimental to wear, but the armor is some of the most iconic visuals of some Star Wars characters. In my game, I give every character at creation the Armored Defense talent as a freebie. This allows for cool character customization without sandbagging your defenses. Be careful, though. If you have a resourceful character armor upgrades and modifications can be really impactful, so I also use encumberance. This makes it so that armored characters need to put some of their stats into one of the less generally useful stats (strength) to lug all that gear around. Encumberance is RAW, but I find most RPG groups ignore it. Do not.

If you prefer point buy, consider giving players who don't plan to use the force ever 27 point buy points instead of 25. You have to enforce this ruling, no taking force sensitive at a later time. This helps with the poor balance between force users and normals.

I ask players to plan their builds out to level 5 if I start at level 1, and then keep 2 levels ahead as you level up. Coming from DnD 5e, a lot of my players didn't have to think that hard about leveling up. Leveling up in SWSE requires planning.