My biggest gripe is pacing. The episodic weekly release structure is the wrong format now for what they're doing. I feel like I'm watching highly disjointed chunks of a movie rather than a show with episodes.

Some things feel too slow and others way too fast. They've lost the elements of good storytelling that could cover up some of the other issues.

I'm also in the camp that Grogu doesn't need to be in this season and his return in BoBF was way too early. Everything he's done could have either been someone/something else or just cut with very little quality loss. I loved seeing his rescue but it wasn't necessary to that plot and could have waited.

I think it would have been better to have Grogu return after they reclaim Mandalore - whatever that means be it the planet or the culture.