I watched the episode, and it felt very formulaic to me. It wasn’t terrible, but the writing is just so mediocre and it’s still a video game plot. After Andor showed what real character development and world building looks like, Mando’s characters are very two dimensional. There’s very little going on beneath the surface. Just one example of what bugs me about this episode and the creators’ approach to this series without going into spoilers:

Mando goes to visit a character from the past. He enters the person’s HQ. The HQ is totally deserted and the person is sitting in a chair. The person spouts some exposition and off Mando goes. The person just seems to be sitting there waiting for Mando to arrive for the person to do their thing to move the plot. It reminds me of those conquest games, where the screen is black in the area where the characters haven’t been yet. There’s nothing there until the characters need something.