Which isn’t to say I think it’s recycling or copying those tropes in a lazy way.
Rather, I think Jon Favreau & Co. successfully introduced Giancarlo Esposito as an intelligent and intimidating villain, making him appear capable of producing an opposing faction that could actually take down the good guys.
Though I may be disappointed that a bunch of Dark Troopers never went ultra-ham on someone, I can appreciate how both the Dark Troopers and Moff Gideon himself are really just The Mandalorian’s takes on a well-known Star Wars formula.