This!
That big universe gets shrunk down to one family and a few consistent friends that are somehow all connected. Tiresome.
I wouldn't mind that if it was a set story with a beginning, middle and end. And in this whole universe we got more stories with their own beginnings, middles and ends. In far off places, with different characters, totally divorced from the Skywalkers, or with some slight connection, or even as a direct continuation.
But when you're constantly milking the same exact characters, the same exact beats, over and over again, then I get too tired to search for the diamonds in the rough. What are SW comics about? Luke-Han-Leia battling the Empire. We've been getting that for 40 years. Sometimes there's the OC Jedi during the 4-6 window doing the same thing. Repeated beats in such farmed out IPs are fine and all, but there's a difference between capecomics and SW that is important. SW has fixed endings for all the big happenings, whereas capes are soap operas and are in an eternal flux. Yeah, most X-Men comics are more or less the same thing month in month out, but there's the illusion of change. A death here and there, a rebirth, a change of pace, different genres, different decades and zeitgeists changing the aesthetic, there's a cycle. Currently they have their own country and planet and are fighting other alien empires. It'll end, they'll go back to the mansion, we'll get another Mr Sinister story in a decade and so it goes. But that's par of the course with capes. Every run is someone's first. Retcons happen every week. They're soap operas with tights. But until Marvel closes up shop I have no idea what'll happen. Maybe something awful, maybe something cool, maybe something temporary, maybe something permanent. But the possibility is there.
Now compare that with SW where you know that Vader dies, Obi-Wan dies, and the Emperor reigns for just a couple of years meaning the millenia-spanning great Sith plan and Sithari prophecy ended up being a failure. And with the ST we know everyone dies and Palpatine's and Luke's Hand's Cloned-esque granddaughter takes over the Skywalker name. So what's the point? Why should I read another generic 10-issue story arc where Luke and Han battle the Empire? Why should I care about a game with an OC Jedi fighting the Empire? I know how it all ends. I've been pulling the Vader comic(s) since 2015. Every writer cycles through the same beats where Vader mopes, finds a new OC Jedi to hunt, Palpatine berates him, and he does something bad to strengthen his Edgy Side. But oh, there's a tear and some humanity left! But again, I know all the important bits. I've read this story again and again. 90% of "new" stories are just more derivative "fast food" that do nothing but bloat the brand. If there was even the illusion of moving forward, I wouldn't mind it. The EU did move forward. Like it or not, it explored the far past, the immediate aftermath of ROTJ and the future. Sure, the same 3-4/4-6 stories existed too, but in smaller quantities and were adjacent to main plots. There was possibility.
Nevertheless, for me, the thing that makes Star Wars, and the kind of pop culture is created, so hard to really obsess over and "love" is that it's so goddamn huge and interconnected. The movies are in the same canon with the books and the shows and the comics and the cartoons and everything. It's the first of its kind even going back to the EU. Comics have their own continuities, and convoluted as they are, you just read from the 60s to now. The novels, the AUs, the movies, the games, they all have their own continuities. It is both too big in its content, and too small in its variety. Ultimately, sure, you can pick and choose, which is what I've been doing all the decades I've been a fan. But we're talking about being so passionate about an IP that you can't get oversaturated.
In the end I see SW as a story, whereas capes are an endless soap opera. The characters and settings lend themselves to different interpretations and reinventions, so even if you tire of the "story", you can still like the gimmick/core. With SW I can't do that. Vader is Vader the way he is. And the more his story is bloated, the less special he becomes. Same goes for the entirety of SW. I cannot judge it the same way I judge a comic or a videogame. Halo is there to be a game first and foremost. Capes are a soap opera. Something like LotR is a few specific books and extra notes/worldbuilding, with lots of non-canon other media adaptations. SW is its own thing, and I can't keep up with it to that extent. 40K is similar in that there's tons and tons more content, but there canon means nothing so you can literally choose what you want and make up your own.
All in all, it's a bit personal. Something grabs me, I get into it, and I focus on the best bits. I never was the kind to visit the encyclopedia site to learn about made up lore. It's why I never got into fantasy much. I find it utterly useless. I barely know enough about real world cultures, I'm not gonna waste brain space and time learning about the Kauxra from Kahraxa and their religion of Kau'Hran worship to get that tidbit about that vase from the side-mission of the videogame which spun-off from the show which is shoehorned between Episodes 7 and 8 of The Water-Walker: An AirBringer's Bane Saga or whatever. I get into the main installments, if I find the time I check the easily accessible sidenotes, and that's it. All that said, I'll play that SW Eclipse thing when it comes out, as it looks aesthetically cool. But I'm not reading any High Republic stuff. I'll buy any SW dolly, from any era or "source", as long as I enjoy the character and have somewhere to put it. But I'm not going to bother to "keep up with the canon". I'll just pick and choose what I like, when I like, the way I like.
TL;DR I just can't obsess over fictional settings to such a degree. They all tire me and overstay their welcome at some point. I rather "a bit of everything" over an overabundance of bloat from one single thing.
