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It's great because it hardly resembles Star Wars. There's no chosen one (OK, season 2 sort of makes Andor into someone chosen by The Force, but it's vague enough that maybe it's just saying it's around him because of what he's done/become), no lighsabers, barely any of The Force, there's mass murder of civilians on screen, and I'm pretty sure they even included an anologue for Walt Disney himself as a master of propoganda assisting The Empire, just like the real Walt and Fascists.
It's good because they have a passionate team, and they seem to have been given almost complete freedom. Disney isn't breathing down their necks telling them what to or not to include. They just want to tell a story about rebellion in our world, but use the Star Wars backdrop to trick people into watching it and agreeing with it when they maybe wouldn't initially if it were using imagery from our world.
I pressured a friend of mine into watching Andor; they were reluctant because they knew very little of Star Wars, but they loved it. Andor pulls off the impressive feat of making something that's enjoyable to Star Wars fans and casuals/non-fans alike
BTW this is why us old lore fans got so pissy when Disney reset everything. While Andor is probably an improvement on its old lore equivalent there are entire books and comics dedicated to this type of shit.
And Disney just reset it again by stopping Andor at season 2.