The video to which I am responding is found here:
And they do raise some valid points. I simply contend that their perception of the platform is exclusively based on its performance on Hoth and Endor, and, well, that's not the best look ever, but it's also not the entire picture. As comments there point out, the murder chicken's performance in Battlefront, Rogue One, Allegiance, and so forth indicate these are truly effective combat vehicles.
And the simple fact is that if these 'companies' that Cara Dune references didn't have anti-armor weapons, they'd be utterly hosed, regardless of the situation on Endor. (Yes, trees can count as "anti-armor weapons", but given Star Wars' single-biome planets, not all planets have those.)
Also, the thought struck me after I was done recording: "companies of men" is a number strictly less than 1000, and possibly even less than 300, given that's the range in size of the next-size-up military unit, ...
And, as you will note from the photos in the video, OF COURSE the ITT isn't standardized, in any way, shape, or form. There's, like, five different versions of the blessed thing, because NOTHING in the Star Wars universe can EVER be standardized.
As much as I like to rip on the Mon Calamari for producing basically one-off capitol ships, the entire universe has completely buggered their logistics chain.
"Oh, you want parts for an ITT? WHICH ONE?"
I mean, I guess if your entire business model consists of, "Burn planets to the ground, and if your guys die, we'll just forcibly convert replacements from the available populace of the next planet," you're going to build some... interesting weapons.
They work well enough that even non-human advanced species are utterly terrified of them, though, so I guess there's that.
All clips and photos by way of The Chronicles of Riddick - https://amzn.to/3mZJr7j - and you really should watch the entire series of movies.
I have no idea why someone thought a massively overly-complicated, massive pain-in-the-ass-to-maintain monstrosity would make a good startfighter, but here we are.
At least it has a lot of guns?
Many thanks to Deputy Rust - https://twitter.com/DeputyRustArt - for developing the Tomboy Mandalorian.
