I don’t have a huge problem with Midichlorians. They essentially exist to act as a middleman between life forms and the Force, and to explain the differences in Force potential between different people. My issue with them is that adding this new microscopic middleman to explain how people connect to the Force really just passes the question onto something else rather than clarifying anything. Midichlorians are life forms that live inside other life forms, yet only Midichlorians are able to connect to the Force directly without needing an intervening entity to help them. Which raises the question: what is actually special about Midichlorians? If they’re just physical organisms, what sets them apart? What is it about them that makes them unique and justifies their special connection to the Force that no other life forms have? Where before, the connection between people and the Force was left mysterious and sparsely explained, now we know people connect through the Midichlorians, yet the connection between Midichlorians and the Force itself is unexplained.