It’s space fantasy, science fantasy, space opera, or soft sci fi, take your pick. It changes some rules about how the world works while retaining others, and it tends to get worse when its own rules get violated. For example, there is FTL travel and spacecraft everywhere, but there is absolutely no teleportation. The Force is mystical and magical and based on belief, but it still requires training to use. You can move things with telekinesis, but you and any objects you move are still physically present and obey the laws of physics when they’re dropped or thrown. Space has sound, things blow up, and ships tend to behave like planes or naval ships, but when there’s a hole in a ship, it’s still exposed to vacuum and everything gets sucked out.

Both “normal” fantasy and science fiction work the same way. You let the audience suspend disbelief by establishing something and then holding to it. It’s fine acknowledging the surreal, visionary elements of Star Wars (parts I think people forget the most when it comes to Return of the Jedi), but that doesn’t mean anyone is doing anything wrong by detailing the rules that it does have.

This is also why, for example, people tend to not like things like people getting stabbed with lightsabers and not dying. Or they’re okay with explosions and sound in space, but not lingering normal fires blowing in the “wind.” Or some of the more cartoonish sequences in Attack of the Clones.