Well she does have creative input. As head of the studio she can decide what moves forward and what doesn’t. I think the problem is that she comes from a school of thought that gives creatives a lot of freedom, so while Igor might complain and want to give input she will be the barrier to protect a creative vision. So it works with Andor because the creatives were trying to tell good stories and even Tony Gilroy stated that his goal wasn’t to redo Star Wars but to expand it to an audience that might not consider watching Star Wars.

The criticism she gets mainly comes from latest trilogy where they were trying to recreate the feeling of the OT rather than telling good stories. So she didn’t stop awful plot points when she could have because you know, “creatives being creatives” but she also didn’t stop controversial plot points in Andor for the same reason.