Yeah. Star Wars ships were never meant to move realistically. They knew how space travel worked in 1976. They were literally landing people on the moon just four years prior.

Star Wars ships were intentionally made to fly and maneuver like 1940’s fighter planes. Like so many other things in Star Wars they took something familiar and put a new skin on it.

The analogy of a Honda Civic moving sideways doesn’t really work. A Honda is a real world vehicle. X wings and TIE fighters are not. But they were intentionally designed to mimic real world things from our past. A better analogy might be a newly designed car-like object that moves in the same fashion as stagecoach. And with that in mind (making something new mimic something familiar/old) I think future audiences will accept it just fine.

I think the fact that it will be (is?) an old movie with old effects, old makeup, old sound design, old dialogue, etc will ruin it for people before it hits that “uncanny valley of the familiar”. Much in the same way old silent films or even talkies from the ‘30’s are a difficult watch for most audiences today.

And finally, SuperweaponVII is right to point out (as has been done many a time) that Star Wars is, at heart, a swashbuckling fantasy with a sci-fi veneer. To lean so deep into the hard science would destroy what makes it Star Wars.