I also LOVE the score.
Agreed. That so many find it underwhelming perplexes me.
I’ve still only watched R1 the one time in the theater, but there were several times where I thought "I like this music."
I don’t need it to be music I wanna go home and listen to. I never put on any of the SW soundtracks (except Princess Leia’s Theme on occasion), it just needs to work in the movie while I’m watching, and this score nailed it.