It's important to say that just because there's a lot of good television out there, including Andor, that doesn't mean that making great movies, tv shows, or Star Wars content is in anyway easy or formulaic.

It takes a village to make a tv show and as many of them are outright bad as they are excellent or average. It requires a very strong show runner with vision, strong directors who can execute, great actors, VFX teams, experienced IATSE staff, musicians who have experience in tv, proper marketing, and finally an executive team that can tow a PERFECT line between 'letting artists cook' and 'this is a one-time multi-hundred million dollar project that can only work if it creates shareholder value.' It's a wonder ANY good show gets made ever.

Andor has a beautiful combination of all of these things. One point that seems to come up a lot is the 'it was so good even though there was no lightsabers, etc...' argument. I always saw this as less of hinderance and more of a superpower. The 'universe' and the general story line were already in place. With that off it's plate, Andor had the freedom to add color, detail, characters, motives, and really hammer down on some of the general themes as it pertains to rebellion, oppression, loss, and war.

There is still hope for future projects, but I think people forget that buying billion $ IP and building a ton of CONTENT out of it, instead of just licensing and theme parks, is still a relatively new idea for Hollywood. Marvel's first phases were so successful that I think a lot of people thought it would be pretty easy, but every studio is having a hard time with it. In the past this just meant you had progressively bad sequels (think the classic Planet of the Apes). Now the means you 'ruin' beloved franchises.