Bad Batch's second season is finished, and The Mandalorian's third will conclude in a few weeks, and they're both very good; marked improvements over their previous seasons. The lazy thing to do is imagine Andor dailies going around the office and crews on other shows saying "why can't we be more like that?", but the small, corrective changes have enough in common with Andor to invite the thought.
Broadly, both shows narrowed their scope and delivered on their pitch. The Mandalorian is no longer a platform from which to launch spinoffs, it's a guy looking to build a place for himself. When the story leaves him, it finds other people from his past looking to build a place for themselves. It's unified. It's focused. It delivers on Flash Gordon adventure violence.
Bad Batch isn't trying to be wiki glue, forging together a brand. It's mercenaries lost without a war, but living with one last mission. It's the most direct sequel to Clone Wars, so a galaxy-spanning cast is still part of it, but the (relatively few) guest stars are all Clone Wars originals, and does anyone really roll their eyes and call Senator Halliburton of Kamino a gratuitous cameo?
Both were made, in part, to explore transitional points in the big galactic timeline. And both are now doing that by letting their casts just... be in that time, and let us infer bigger movements from their viewpoints. Maybe Han Solo shows up next Wednesday and I've been played for a fool, but that feels unlikely.
And maybe I should despair that my standards have fallen so low that "following the initial pitch" clears the bar to the point I write a couple hundred words about it. But I like those pitches. It was frustrating to me when they were subservient to Brand Synergy. And maybe some people would like to hear that I don't think that's happening anymore. At least not right now.