Star Wars

Agreed. On the one hand, sometimes keeping things moving towards a cohesive vision is good, which I think Filoni has long done well with the multiple properties he's worked on.

But sometimes, knowing when to respect someone else's vision and give them the tools they need to realize that vision is more important. Andor remains the best thing to come out of Star Wars since the original trilogy for me, and I think it succeeds in part because of how different it dared to be. It wouldn't have succeeded if it was forced to conform to a mold and tie in to everything else.

Hopefully Filoni can strike that balance, keeping it all together while giving other creatives a chance to do what they want.

Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)

Everything I've read has suggested the exact opposite, like this bit from an interview with Tony Gilroy.

“When we started challenging Kathy, Kathy just kept saying yes,” Gilroy recalled. “‘Oh, I’m going to put the first scene in a brothel.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘I’m going to have them kill two cops.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘We want the production designer from Chernobyl.‘ ‘Okay, good idea.’ She backed our play and got everything that we were doing.”

And she was the one that wanted Tony Gilroy to do it in the first place, he didn't go to her with the show idea, she went to him.