I remain of two minds. The episode entertained me, so it succeeds. Quality is somewhere between Xena: Warrior Princess and a cartoon. Which is fine, not everything can be 'Andor'. The writing is still reeeallly sloppy though. They're advancing the plot which I appreciate and it has its moments, but most of the time they still have the good crayons out.
This does kinda double down on the cynicism of the ST: all of that sacrifice and heroism, only to replace the Empire with an incompetent and blandly evil bureaucracy that has its head so far up its own orifice they're good with peppering their logistical machinery with former Imperials and letting people die because they didn't fill out their tax forms. Yeah, these idiots had it coming.