If you are creating an inter-connected timeline then you can do that by finding a reason for characters to show up in Jabba’s palace (and risk it feeling shoehorned) or you can take a sojourn to another part of the Galaxy (as the last two episodes did).
To be honest, taking a detour to visit a different planet with different characters for most of an episode seems more like hijacking the story than inter-connecting to me. I would have preferred characters showing up at Boba’s palace because at least then Boba would actually be there and it would feel like the same story we started out with.