It wasn’t until I found this forum that I realized so many people HATE that “They fly now” joke. I will never understand it. lol.
Because the Empire, Republic, and CIS have all had jettroopers and it would be weird if the FO didn’t.
Well, the audience doesn’t necessarily know that as it was never depicted in the mainline Skywalker films, and certainly not the sequel trilogy. Also, none of the characters save Chewie and the droids lived through any of those wars, and C-3PO had his memory wiped after ROtS.
I do get where you’re coming from! But I think sometimes the moment has to come first, even at the expense of those of us who’ve spent their lives reading Wookiepedia.