Father Skywalker said:
Ok, other than that, read the rest of what it says.....
Stop nitpicking, star wars has all of the other space opera science fiction elements......
Fantasy is usually medieval/ancient
Science fiction is usually set during/in futuristic settings
But there are exceptions, such as futuristic fantasy stories, or ancient science fiction stories.......
What if I write a story about time travel to the past??? Science fiction or fantasy???
http://thetorchonline.com/latest/what-the-hell-is-star-wars-anyway-science-fiction-or-fantasy/
Read that and you will see that Star Wars is a space fantasy and not science fiction. Only the prequels, which don't really exist and are just a bad nightmare anyway, became more sci-fi than fantasy. Which is another reason why the prequels just don't work as Star Wars movies.