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Andor was about people living in a world ruled by an oppressive authoritarian regime which put little value on life hence was calously violent.
And as people they were vastly more complex than merelly good or evil, at time acted in stupid ways, others in intelligent ways, sometimes made the greatest sacrifices for others and other times were selfish and self-centred.
All that meant we could empathise with them because they were like us, only in that imaginary universe and those imaginary circumstances.
This is what great Acting is all about and this is, IMHO, how you make viewers deep down "get it" how it is to be in that kind of situation (which for some leads them to understand the "other" side).
Living by proxy that "truthful living under imaginary circumstances" of a good actor with a good script is how you get people to understand, not political speech decorated with a few bits and bobs from an imaginary universe to try and disguise its nature as "present day politics opinion making".
PS: I suspect that it's actually not by chance that both Andor and Rogue One, which was maybe the most full-bodied Star Wars film (in the sense that it was as good "chewing gum for the brain" as Ep4-6 but also had more depth), have the same actor cast as a main character.