All design has to be recycled and modified in a way that doesn't distract you as a viewer though and these 'burbs aparently don't fit the bill for alot of fans. The examples you've used from the OT only ever seemed to bother people with special knowledge about "fringe" topics, such as firearms. The problem here is that everyone knows what typical western architecture looks like. Also, Had George Lucas been born in Japan or in the Middle East we'd very likely have a vastly different looking Star Wars altogether...
Even if you didn't know what a jezail musket looked like, the fact that Lucas put them in that environment, and into the hands of desert nomads, means that he wanted the connection to be drawn: that this universe, as alien as it is in many regards, is actually very familiar.
Familiarity makes the universe more accessible to a wider audience, as opposed to the genre of philosophical or hard science (i.e., Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke) that can be too involved or too bizarre to draw audiences/readers in.
Become too familiar and some will reach their breaking point: the world of escapism becomes too close to the real world we want to escape from.
Among my breaking points were the Mods and Rockers in
The Book of Boba Fett. It was
Quadrophenia in space. Essentially it
shouldn't break the universe since so much that came before already transposed elements of our world directly into George's.
However, the suburbs don't bother me as they seem a natural inclusion, and if you have the space you can have gardens, a luxury not available for those in tower blocks, and certainly not for anyone on Coruscant.
Andor was lauded as a top class series by many, yet gave us a slice of life from the perspective of working people.
Skeleton Crew has suburbs, schools, school buses, BMX or chopper themed mini-speeders. It's a slice of life like
Andor, but specifically designed to evoke 1980s kids movies in the manner of
Stranger Things.
If this series had been made at the time of the Ewok movies, this is how it would likely have looked, albeit with matte paintings.
The 'burbs aren't breaking me because they're what I expect to see at least somewhere in that universe. They feel like they belong in one of Brian Daley's Han Solo novels. Han and Chewie landed at spaceports that sounded much like airports, and made their way into alien cityscapes, though I don't recall them ever going to the 'burbs because the action and the interaction was in the busier centre. But they must've existed beyond the commercial centre, on the outskirts of the cities.
I'm getting over the
piratey pirates with the 'pirate' clothes and weapons (we already saw them in
Mandalorian season 3), but one thing I am finding hard to stomach is the elephant boy because he looks like a walking cartoon.
A couple of years ago I became completely sick of Star Wars, OT included, and cancelled a lot of my pre-orders.
The sickness gradually subsided and I was drawn back in. Oddly enough, probably for many, it was
Ahsoka that largely cured me. While some things were still off, many elements seemed to merge the classic with the new in a way that much of
Obi-Wan Kenobi or TBOBF failed to do.
The Acolyte was an utter dud, but I expect
Skeleton Crew will have a lot more going for it, including the unique aspect of being retro '80s.
