That's an excellent point. Boba Fett has always been an extremely popular character, but he's also had, for the longest time, an extremely vocal set of detractors, with his escape from the Sarlaac and consequent post-ROTJ exploits being a source of great rage and derision from the same (and beyond the hardcore haters, mocking the character was pretty much a cliche of online nerd culture for decades). In the wake of Fett's appearance in
The Mandalorian, however, it seems like things largely flipped from "Boba Fett survived the Sarlaac, so stupid," to "Boba Fett survived the Sarlaac, so
awesome!" practically overnight, with the change coming, so far as I can tell, directly and solely from the character appearing in live-action again. It's a pretty sad commentary on our culture when you think about it. You can pen a well-written story about a man waging a battle of wills against a telepathic and malignant hivemind of Lovecraftian proportions, while fighting to escape from the guts of the same creature, and people will brush it off as fanboy nonsense, but have the same man appear, without explanation, and effortlessly gun down whole squads of armed soldiers on your TV screen and suddenly it's the best thing ever.