I feel like the Hand of Thrawn duology made a lot more sense back in the late 90’s if you had already read all the other EU books than it does nowadays. I found them to be very confusing and I had to pull out my phone and look up names all the time. At least Survivor’s Quest doesn’t have this problem, but I found it to be somewhat mediocre, even kind of dull at times. As indifferent as I am overall when it comes to the new EU, I actually found Thrawn (2017) to be Zahn’s most interesting book about Thrawn since the Thrawn trilogy.
Haven’t gotten around to reading Outbound Flight yet though.