One of the biggest complaints I consistently hear about TPM though (aside from its general crapness) is that Maul didn’t survive to be a recurring villain, so it’s another case of the screenwriter being damned either way…
I said at least they mixed it up.
I didn’t say mirroring the scene again and again was a good idea, far from it.
They could have had a completely different fight.
Instead we had the Maul fight mirror the Obi-Wan/Vader fight in ANH
The Dooku fight in AOTC with some new (largely goofy) elements but the main character loosing his arm as a parallel ESB and then the Dooku/Anakin fight being a mirror of the Luke/Vader fight of ROTJ
There are other situations to be had where people hit each other with swords.
The nearest we have to that in TFA can’t help but throw in a nod to Luke in the Wampa cave.
It’s just a jumbled up bag of references.
Write a story FFS.