Does it bother any of you as much as it bothers me that the technology in the Old Republic, some thousands of years before the Star Wars movies is, to many degrees, comparable to the movies? Droids look different… but they’re essentially the same. Laser weapons look different… but they’re essentially the same. Ships fly from planet to planet… and they’re essentially the same.
Anyone want to speculate why technology seems to stand still for thousands of years and then in the space of one generation, we go from Anakin’s mechanical monstrosity of an artificial hand to Luke’s which looks extremely lifelike. Weird, eh?