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I think they'd have cooked Star Wars even if the DEI wasn't present. They'd have Disney-Marvelled it anyway. Disney doesn't like ambiguity, it has to be binary heroes vs villains. The stories are all the same.
Star Wars isn't the best counter to that, but there was always lingering doubt. Was there good in Vader? Would Luke turn? Would the republic win? Yeah, in hindsight you know what happens, but in the moment there are questions.
George Lucas has always been adamant that the good/evil dichotomy in SW is stark. Light side = good, Dark Side = bad. Jedi = good, Sith = bad. He wanted that hero-villain dichotomy as unambiguous as possible, which is why Palpatine was so cartoonishly evil.
KK and her pet directors like Cryin Johnson and Headland are the ones trying to muddy the waters by attempting to rehabilitate the Sith and throw shit on the Jedi. That was the whole point of the Acolyte, and a big part of the reason it failed.
Honestly, I'm not against "Law vs. Chaos" themes in contrast to "Good vs. Evil," though those sorts of stories, to be effective, usually make a point that both ends of that spectrum are not good (True Law denies you any agency, True Chaos is unhindered immorality and destruction), a balance keeps their worst aspects in check.
They couldn't possibly do that right though. At this point, they're literally cheering Chaos as being a moral good.
And so many modern Hollywood writers all have the same lefty university viewpoint. But yes you are right. With good writing it could be very good.