Understanding "Journey to Batuu" issues

It's Star Wars product placement, that's the biggest issue. But I bought it for the CAS + my nieces wanted some things from it, so I gave it a shot. My biggest problems with it are

• Batuu is very wide and empty, and can be confusing to navigate because most of the buildings look exactly the same.
  
• Many of the missions are dull and tedious.
  
• A lot of things are done off-screen, which makes it feel less engaging.
  
• No pets or occult powers
  
• Droids can't even walk around outside of Batuu, so there goes my idea of making a futuristic Oasis Springs with DU's robots.
  
• We needed some Batuu-exclusive skills. Using the hacking stick boosts Programming because it's the closest thing the base game has. Lightsabering is tied to Fitness because it's the only athletic skill we have in the basegame. Lightsaber duels aren't even an activity in the likes/dislikes thingy.
  
• You have to interact with the sequel trilogy characters, which makes it even harder to pretend Batuu isn't based on an outside property.
  
• Overall, it's just so self-contained to Batuu. Like I get it, it's the BATUU pack. But with most packs, you can take a lot of its content out of its original world and still enjoy it.
  
• More of a meta sense than an issue with the pack itself: it came at a time when fans were begging for things they wanted. We weren't getting a lot of transparency, and the game was really lacking. It was always destined to be hated, but it could have had a better reception if it came out now that we have more stuff.
  
• Also I don't like Star Wars, Disney or product placement.
  

I'd probably like it more if the pack wasn't so restrictive with its content. I could see myself making lightsaber duels a sport in my regular gameplay, or have sims hang out with droids. As it stands, I just use the clothes and BB for my desert orc builds.