>studios spend half a century and billions of dollars trying to figure out why it was so succesful
>it must be the aliens (it isn't)
>it must be the jedi (it isn't)
>it must be the lightsabers (it isn't)
>it must be all the crazy different alien worlds (it isn't)
>it must be just the desert planet (it isn't)
>it must be inclusivity and diversity against le heccin evil fascists (it isn't)
>it must be convoluted plots and superweapons (it isn't)
Star Wars was just an extremely accessible ultra simple monomyth farmboy-hero story patterned on samurai-western B movies that didn't take itself too seriously or act like it was some massively important cultural monolith that needed to echo sociopolitical issues. That's the one thing they never tried to do again.