I think the big thing you're missing is that Flint's emotional motivation needs to be tied up in Piracy As Revolution, and him being gay long before it's accepted, and persecuted for it, is a great way to tie emotionality to his politics. Flint is nothing if not intensely passionate about his goals to burn The Old World down, and I wouldn't want to lose that fire for something more stoic and pragmatic. Flint's impassioned anger towards the world makes the show work. He becomes The Monster long before Miranda is killed

not that this makes this take any less homophobic, but the show is very ambiguous about whether or not that actually happened

milennials on Twitter love Succession, they do fancams to pop music and TikTok skits and everything. and 3 out of the 5 in the photo are milennials, yes

millennials actually

yeah there's a larger conversation about the relationship between mass appeal and "quality" that Andor doesn't fit neatly into because of its parent franchise's identity as blockbuster

Andor is definitely more esoteric in form, a genre and style that has its audience and is associated with a level of sophistication - but when it's about real history or politics. Andor is in a space fantasy backdrop, so that muddles how it should be engaged with. I think you can perceive the dissonance in a few ways: as bold pastiche, or half baked emulation. I think Andor more than meets its ambitions in the former but it just has the entirely wrong audience to appreciate it, and it becomes easier to perceive the latter in that context.