One reason why star wars is a really good setting: hardware is cheap and scarily advanced, software (with the exception of the fully-sentient droids) is rudimentary. It's like an inverse of our world, where interplanetary travel is so cheap and easy that owning a space ship is basically equivalent to owning a car, but despite the fact that droids can understand speech, it's impossible to make a snooper program that listens to people talking and flags conversations that contain certain keywords