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Well, back in the old pre Disney days, heck back in the pre sequel days, there was actually a bunch of books, comics, video games, real nerd shit, that you did actually get bullied if you admitted to reading or caring about.

But, out of that, you did have a kind of consistent set of rules, basically a modified version of our real world laws of physics, that did largely work and made consistent sense.

Like uh, blasters, turbo lasers... they actually have ammo, its varying kinds of compressed exotic gasses that are then excited into becoming plasma.

And then when the physics diverge from reality is that there is some kind of way of basically encapsulating that plasma into coherent bolts that remain coherent and travel, though they do eventually dechore and basically fizzle out.

So, the EM force works differently in the Star Wars universe than it does in ours.

There are different kinds of propulsion and levitation technologies that actually do have different kinds of physical properties and mechanical characteristics and needed raw materials.

Repulsorlifts need to scale to the size and mass of what they are lifting, and they are only capable of basically pushing something away from a large massive body by a very small amount, they do not actually propel anything in a direction at a useful speed, other kinds of devices to that.

Sublight thrusters can move things in a manner much like jet or rocket engines, but require much more input energy. Ships often have to manage their power plants to account for sustained, extreme maneuvering, and shields, and other systems, all at the same time.

And then lightspeed/hyperspace engines are a completely different kind of thing, and are actually more about a computer calculating a trajectory that won't have you flying into a star or planet at velocities impossible to achieve in our reality.

There are various more detailed explanations for how hyperspace and lightspeed jumps work.

There's a whole class of Imperial Star Destroyers that basically have a bunch of huge field generators of some kind, that basically pulls any 'nearby' lightspeed travelling ships ... out of hyperspace, so it can actually do things like blockade hyperspace routes and ambush fleets travelling through hyperspace.

There's a whole Expanded Universe of lore and detail to go through, and evaluate and try to theorize about, you know, 'nerd out' over.

... or you can just say its a silly fantasy movie, who cares, its not that deep bro.

So yeah, if you're not interested in all that lore, then you're not that interested, and thats fine.

But some people are, and have been, for decades.