lol there's a bit on ahsoka that feels like it's a response to a reddit post about why the jedi don't get out and block cannon fire during spaceship combat
real "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box" energy
it's funny how little effort they put into supporting the idea that thrawn is a hypercompetent strategic and/or tactical genius
it does make sense insofar as the general bar for imperial competence is just impossibly low, which ::gestures at america:: sometimes empires are like that, yeah
What doesn't help is that most writers - notably for sci-fi, a field that often includes military shit - know about war about as much as their audience. Mainly, that they watched Saving Private Ryan once and still resent having had to learn history in school.
Everything works out fine in the end since, as previously noted, major audiences' understanding of war is not unlike that of a brick of tofu.
There's also another thing playing in the show writers' favor: fans of multimillion dollar media franchises have some of the lowest standards on Earth. While you're pondering whether the show does a good job of depicting a military genius, they're flooding Twitter with posts about how Ashoka swinging her lightsabers at some zombies like a geriatric is the most sublime fight choreography since Michael cast down Satan.
