What do you think is the reason why people hate the politics in the Star wars prequels but people like LOTGH despite a large part of it being about politics? (ignoring the fact that LOTGH politics is obviously more based, since normies generally don't care about that)
Edit: LOTGH=Legend of the Galactic Heroes for those who don't know
It's kind of obvious.
Star Wars became celebrated being sci-fi skinned fantasy. So when it became a political thing, that's not what the fans were there for.
LOGH was heavy into politics and diplomacy from the start. So that's the fanbase it had.
Cake is good. Steak is good. Biting into a cake and finding out it's steak with chocolate frosting is not good.
I would even go as far as most anime space operas are heavily political, it’s basically a subset of the genre.