This has been the series I’ve been most excited about. I’d rather Disney mess with their own characters, then continue their bad track record with the legacy ones. Rogue One has been the only really great thing I’ve liked that has come out of Disney Star Wars. Only gripe I had with it was the characters not quite being built up enough, which this series should greatly improve. By the end of it, I’m hoping we can fanedit a great middle trilogy between the prequels and the OT.
To be fair to Gilroy, he was brought in to fix Rogue One, so the poor character arcs are likely the result of changes to the original story. It will be interesting to see a story that he has shaped from the beginning.