Another way to look at these films and all film franchises is to see the films as if they are films about true stories.

Like every film about true stories, they cast actors to play real people, they twist dialogue, characters, events in order to make them work as a digestable 2 hour movie. The films arent the things they present, they are just the lens we use to look at these events. And I think that works for Star Wars, you can believe they are based on true stories. Instead of “Based on a true story” These films are always preceeded with

“A Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…”