I'm in the Boba Fett is overrated camp. I see him as an overrated thug ("bounty hunter scum") who got his just comeuppance in ROTJ and never rose again (unless you count coming back from the sarlacc without his memories in the Marvel comics only to be flushed back down it again, never to be heard from again). Nifty outfit, excellent voice acting from Wingreen, but overall an annoying character who had the cheek to kidnap the great Solo. Loved his death. Hate the 90s EU's resurrection of him and its flogging of him and the way he's built up into The Greatest Thing Ever. I don't get why he's seen as so cool. Yeah, he fucked up things for the main characters, but not without a lot of help from Darth Vader. Dirty little scumbag working for the empire like that. And fucking up things for the main characters hardly gets him points in my book. I was so ELATED that he was offed in ROTJ. I wanted to twist his head off myself, but I settled for Solo sending him into the Sarlacc.
I mostly didn't see what the big fuss was with the bounty hunters, though I liked Bossk and IG88. The toy packs advertised a mail-in Dengar and I wondered why anybody would want that idiot. And like wtf did he have bandages around his head for anyway? Looked scruffy.
I didn't welcome the Fetts being shoehorned into the prequels and I was prejudiced against Jango from the beginning for being the proto-Boba, though he was an annoying motherfucker in his own right too. The best part of AOTC was when Jango got his head chopped off. I was very disappointed that Lucas chickened out and didn't show the head drop out of the helmet when kid Boba picked it up. And we're supposed to feel sorry for that nasty little creep just because daddy Jangle got his just comeuppance? I certainly felt no sympathy. The AOTC Fett story stinks of pandering to fans, which also pissed me off. I can't understand Fett fandom. The Fetts are just crude thugs, not worth being fans of. Vader, Han, Luke, Leia, Lando, old Kenobi, ROTJ Jabba (a thug but a cool one) -those are characters worth being fans of.
I also dislike it when Star Wars flogs anything as cool. That's because the old films didn't really do that. There were plenty things that were cool in there but the films didn't push them as being such. The prequels push a lot of things as being cool. Notably lightsaber battles, Yoda with a saber, the Jedi and Darth Maul. It's a showier more self-satisfied mentality. The EU pushed things as cool even in the days of the OOT and Boba Fett was a focus of this. The holiday special pushed him as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy and the 1980 newspaper comic strip flogged how he was invulnerable in his armor and was so effective with the gadgetry in his outfit. It was rubbed in. The 90s EU built up on this massively. Boba Fett was everywhere and the coolest thing ever and they even retconned that he was a very moral guy in his own right and looked down on Han's supposed lack of morality. Barf me out.
If you want Mandalorians (a lot of people seem to), there's Fenn Shysa (who shared my view of Fett) and Tobbi Dala (who died really well) and Rohlan Dyre isn't half bad either. We don't need Fetts.