SPECULATION An issue of scale?

It's hard to argue with your logic because I find it impossible to follow. You make up relationships between words without any kind of explanation behind your reasoning.
You can't give the same focus to all characters, having minor characters in a story does not mean you are exploiting them.

 

Lando was possibly exploited, which is bad enough - as for everything else, I'll just say that I don't follow other people's logic either

 

Yes, they are THAT powerful and they are, as all Star Wars villains are, tremendously hubristic. I do sincerely belief that what you just said above - we need to see something of the first order occupation/takeover- is something we'll see in the next one.

 

I can appreciate the desire to see different kinds of planets and settings. I feel like the ST has delivered that in ways that support the story they have told thus far.

You have to give credit for Ahch-to being a pretty unique addition that is in the ST, though. We got to see some different styles or architecture and from different time periods, different terrain, and fauna.

I think tonally for this trilogy the planets match. Overall they are trying to give this feeling of isolation and desperation. Even Canto Bight while opulent and heavily populated was there to make Finn and Rose feel isolated from that kind of society. Maz's castle was the same way, a lot of people, but all out for themselves. Surrounded but alone. If they stick with that motif, I wouldn't hold out much hope for IX to add the kind of scenery you are hoping for either.