I agree that shows used to have a chance to catch their legs, but not in that price range. That had the budget of a movie.
Rome on HBO was a brilliant show in it's first season, the critics loved it, but it was really expensive and got cancelled before the 2nd season was done filming, it cost too much and the ratings were not good enough... resulting in the 2nd season being rushed, cheep, trash.
This show had putrid ratings, bad reviews and was crazy expensive. It was doomed.
I don't think it's the "woke" stuff that killed this show, but more that they kinda pooped on the lore of star wars (which turned off the core fan base) and that the writing was bad, and therefore didn't bring in new viewers.
Disney rushed a lot of trash in recent years with the rights to Star Wars and has done huge damage to the brand. The Book of Boba Fett was highly anticipated and it was absolutely awful. They really need to tone down the release schedule. The first season of the Mandalorain was great, the 2nd season was okay, the 3rd was rough, Andor was phenomenal, this show stunk.
They have a similar problem with their marvel products, a severe lack of quality control. It's very boom or bust for them. They either have some high concept thing that really works on multiple levels or they're just throwing something together and hoping it has some sort of broad appeal despite obviously being of low quality.
I hope they're taking their time with Andor, I think it's one of the best things they've put out since they got the rights, but given how little they understand their audience and how rushed their concepts seem to be... I am aprehensive.