I agree with everything you are saying. just think of it though, disney purchased the most beautiful and desirable and expensive lady of the night (star wars), abused her physically and mentally all the while raping her to being near if not at death (all the while allowing their demented friends to do to her what they want) and will now sell her remains off for pennies on the dollar and just maybe simply throw the body into the street. This analogy is in jest but what they did is pure evil. What is happening to them now financially may just be the universe itself saying "enough"!
Not so much evil (well, except maybe KK, she basically tried to turn the franchise into her own version of fucking Twilight, except instead of Sparkly Vampire boy you have angsty balls-haven't-dropped-yet Kylo Ren) as ignorance.
They essentially seemed to be set up to rehash Episodes 4-6 with TFA...and then that fucker Rian Johnson somehow was brought in and really, he was just the catalyst for all the shit falling down because he even admitted he gave no fucks about Star Wars as a franchise, he only saw what he had to work with from the previous film and did whatever, not caring about the follow up film because that wasn't his problem.
The fact that the follow up to that literally resulted in throwing nostalgia thing after nostalgia thing, up to and including fucking Palpatine existing out of the blue with no clear reason in-universe for doing so, shows they had lost all control and were hopelessly spiraling trying to get back the lost fans...and instead simply lost even more in the process.
And Galaxy's Edge showed its true colors the moment they decided to open without its "main attraction" - which I assure you, was NEVER the main attraction. No, that was the fucking overpriced bullshit they shoved into the center, because for all that was cut during development, the ONLY thing that got nixed that would have been taking more money out of guest's pockets was the elaborate seated diner experience. Talking from my last experience at Disneyland, but I thought it rather weird that Galaxy's Edge even existed, when at the time (last September), Tomorrowland not only felt MORE like a sci-fi place, but also literally had more Star Wars themed rides
then the actual Star Wars land. The dumb Hyperspace Mountain overlay was still up (wasn't as good as the normal Space Mountain), Star Tours is obvious, and the Launch Bay thing where carousel/innovations used to be. The only
non-Star Wars thing was
Buzz freakin Lightyear. Like, if they needed space so damn badly for a Star Wars ride, why not just
demolish the Carousel/Innoventions building? Its just nothing but a prop museum and character meet and greet these days! And a single ride would have been
far less costly in comparison to a whole land that was built around an outdoor strip mall
and not invited the problem of still having Star Tours in a position where it
can't exist in Galaxy's Edge.
And then there was all the assumption that GE was going to bring in an insane number of guests to be milked, hence the Rivera hotel and the unneeded skyliner system while the actually still popular Monorails are ten years
past their expiration date and despite Bob Gurr's words on the subject some time back, obviously are not high on Disney's priority list to fix despite being one of the most iconic aspects of Disney parks. And then the Skyliner had
two high profile accidents which just was
delicous to see how rushed things were only to backfire spectacuarly.
Oh, and the Hotel. Did
anybody think for a second this was a good, remotely viable idea?
It was overall the culmination of my main issue with Disney under Iger, which was that he could do nothing but slap IP onto anything and everything - and to him, Star Wars was a brand to be abused to hell and back. Because with Star Wars, they just butchered the existing lore, whereas with the MCU they simply modernized plots that worked in the past, giving them a new coat of paint but the stories were still solid (relatively).
Probably not due to the main factor of Disney+ Existing, they need Mandogunmanadventures to keep that thing afloat.
I mean, people were bragging that they dumped Disney+ the second the season ended.
Whatever deal gets worked out will involve them keeping Mando, literally the only thing of value (until S2 comes along and fucks everything up because it's turning into a mini-RoS nostalgia bomb already), much like how Star Wars has always had a presence in Disney ever since Star Tours (which if there was a merciful higher power would get turned back into the original Star Tours but with all the benefits of the 'prequel' revamp like multiple ride narratives and more creative motion simulator application).
But so long as Disney has control over the writing, they have GOT to know nobody trusts them anymore.
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