A disturbing trend that's emerging among the NuWars fandom post-Andor is the acceptance of moral shortcuts to victory, with them justifying Luthen Rael killing his ISB mole and letting his Separatist allies get killed, because it's necessary for victory.
Never mind that this way of thinking is straight out of the Sith Academy, never mind that moral compromises are what led to the fall of the Republic and the Rise of the Empire, never mind that turning the Alliance into backstabbing cunts destroys the last thing that makes it more appealing than the Empire, let's all make moral sacrifices and get our friends killed so long as it furthers the cause, because the old man in the wig said it was OK.
Like I said before, one of the core things that made the Alliance appealing is that they're the one faction that stands for morality and idealism. The Jedi sacrifice emotion and empathy, the Republic is decadent and self-serving, the Confederates are a bunch of corporate goons, the Sith and the Empire care only about power. The Rebels stand as a stark contrast to all of them in that they built their faction out of political and emotional idealism, and they refused to compromise their morals, even when it gets them in trouble, like when Luke tried to save his friends from Vader's grasp, against Yoda's wishes. Or when they tried to make a friendly outreach to the Ewoks despite the latter wanting to eat them. As a result, the Force favored them, after it abandoned the Jedi, and by the end of the films, the Alliance is the only faction left standing.
Yet most of the talking heads in the fandom now are casting the Rebellion from the movies as the "myth", and saying that the "real" Rebellion are guys like Luthen and Cassian who have no problems shooting their own allies in the back if it served their purposes, and that this is necessary to bring down the Empire. They now cast the idealistic and moral Alliance as a joke, a lie, and the "true" Alliance is the dirty, gritty, underhanded Rebellion that poked the Empire to get it to over-react, while killing loyal Rebel agents like Lonni Jung (Luthen's ISB mole) and Tivik (the informant that Andor kills in Rogue One).
I'd just like to ask; when did they lose themselves? When did these people decide that it's OK to abandon the moral high ground to sink at the same level as the Empire? Because if you have two sides of back-stabbing assholes who look at conventional morality as a thing that can easily be broken, you might as well join the side that has better drip, better logistics, and bigger numbers; you'd have a better shot at surviving. Not to mention they have killer robots and power armor, which the Alliance does not.
Besides, the Empire promotes people based on competence, so the only way they'd kill you is if you fucked up, whereas if you excelled at your job, you'd find yourself climbing up the ladder. Whereas the new Rebels would kill you even if you did your job well as an infiltrator or an informant. Shit, even if you try to defect to their side like Galen Erso did, they'd still fucking kill you, despite the fact that Galen already established a relationship with Saw Gerrera, another Rebel leader.
And it's not limited to Gilroy's work. Filoni is guilty of this too. His "heroic" Jedi use fake surrenders all the time, violating laws of war to get an advantage, which would naturally lead to the Separatists killing any Republic soldier or Jedi who tries to surrender. Filoni's Phoenix Squadron heroes perform terrorist attacks in full view of civilians, while also hiding among said civilians, which causes the Empire to crack down on places like Lothal and Mandalore. They use the populace as a shield, then we're supposed to feel bad when Tarkin or Vader show up and start squeezing the planet and wiping out entire communities in retaliation, when that was Phoenix Squadron's fault to begin with. They get the people of Mandalore to rebel, but do nothing when the Empire comes back in force and turns the planet into a glass ball.
As I highlighted before, previous works involving the Rebels show them typically avoiding high-population centers. Most of the action has them fighting in remote worlds or striking at remote Imperial bases to limit civilian casualties. They rarely fight in the cities. And they sure as hell wouldn't use the populace as a cover, given that the Empire would naturally punish everyone as a result. They also wouldn't betray their own allies, since defecting officers like Crix Madine and Jan Dodonna don't grow on trees, and betraying officers who want to jump ship from the Empire to the Rebellion would just convince them to stay loyal to the Empire and fight until the bitter end, which would make things worse for the Rebels, and convince people that the Rebels are not to be trusted, which would just lead to more people supporting the Empire.
I suppose this is what happens when Leftists write Star Wars. They begin to think that there's no bad tactics, only bad targets. Even though being moral and staying on the narrow, righteous path was one of the Alliance's selling points from the start. They now want to brand the idealistic Alliance from the films as glory-stealing cunts who stole the thunder from the real, gritty rebels who "did the real work" by doing the things the main movie characters are too soft to do.