Tiny nit-pick; The tracking device has been done. Come up with another way.
I think this is their way to tie into the OT a little; maybe that’s why Leia is so certain that “they let us go” in ANH; she’s seen it happen before.
So OT characters aren’t really smart: they just react or take decisions in regards of things they have already seen before…
It’s terrible how damaging this show is for the OT 😕
It’s on par with AOTC dumb scene with the sphere training stuff (so dumb that it made its way into Mando and TROS…)