I didn't watch it when it came out because I was already souring on Star Wars and I pretty much forgot about it, but I've been playing a Star Wars EU based custom DND style tabletop with some buddies for a few weeks and one of them gave me a thumb drive with Andor on it.
It was pretty fucking good. And that's what leads me to being disappointed. It's like having a glimpse of what could have been but wasn't. Even at its "height" of Mandalorian Season 1, Disney Star Wars tv shows were nothing more than normieslop, and got progressively worse from there. I stopped watching after season 2 and only dipped back in to watch Ahsoka because I liked Rebels, and it was the worst thing I've ever seen. All of this was on the high seas of course.
But the here's this relatively obscure show that most people didn't even watch ending up having the best writing out of anything Disney Star Wars produced. And of course it's ignored in favor of more DEI slop like Acolyte. Andor will probably never get a season 2, if it does they'll almost certainly fuck it up, and the entire Star Wars tv show experiment will be remembered like a wet fart during a job interview. All the while, Andor shows that there was at least at one point, a chance for it to have been more, but was deliberately steered away from that by malicious actors at the top.
I'm starting to feel like some of it is a ploy to draw you in, then like the Mandalorian it will turn to shit. If it turns out it's a single season show and it has a story that is appropriate as such, I'll watch it someday. For now, I just don't want to offer time to something they will screw with me later on.
I do think the others are right too, the bar has been lowered. I was sitting around with my Dad over the weekend with some old TV shows on, and I can't stop thinking watching them "can't say that anymore", "could you imagine a show today letting them do that", etc.
You're probably better off not watching it. It's several years old, and at this point in hindsight, we know that Disney went down the wrong path and has been deliberately producing utter bullshit ever since. They're not capable of making something as good as Andor now, and would deliberately avoid doing so even if they were capable. It's a good show, but knowing that this is the only good thing that they have ever and will ever make leaves a sour taste in my mouth. If you prefer to just stay on the side of avoiding all Disney Star Wars all together and more or less forgetting it even exists, you're probably better off.
In a lot of ways it comes down to I have enough to watch anyway. They cut my interest by making crap to the point that I cut TV out so much and they will never get that time back.