Slop.

One thing I liked about Andor is it fleshed the Empire out. Yes in the original series they are just cartoon villains with a Nazi coat of paint. Andor got into the details of how the Empire is exploiting and oppressing people. Cassian is born on a planet that was strip mined by the Empire, he grew up on Ferrix, a planet of ship breakers who are under the authority of a private corporation who the Empire has licensed regional power to, his first mission is to a planet where the Empire is driving indigenous nomadic people into urban manufacturing centers, he helps the resistance on a middle-income planet who the Empire is manufacturing justification for an intervention in because they need to mine a resource that they know will fuck up their environment.

All of this is being under the guise of an "energy program" that's actually just a massive WMD development program (granted the WMD in question is the Death Star which is kind of a goofy concept scifi wise). Andor show the Empire is a extractive colonialist power harvesting resources to develop their military industrial complex.