There's a fight going on for the "right" to continue liking Star Wars, inside the Fandom.
On one side you have the Disney Sequel fans. They paid their $10 for a movie ticket to the new movies, are passingly familiar with the Original Trilogy after having seen on on TBS 10 years ago during family Thanksgiving, and like pink hair.
On the other side you have the pre-Disney fans. They're age segregated between Millennials, who tend to favor the Prequels, and Gen X'ers, who tend to favor the Original Trilogy. Each saw all 6 movies in theaters, most likely multiple times, are familiar with the original theatrical cut vs Lucas Edits of the OT, and probably sat in line for hours or even overnight for tickets to opening night showings. Many of them spent hundreds of dollars reading the array of novels set in the Star Wars universe, and hundreds more buying a slew of Star Wars video games titles. And some others (or even the same ones) have hundreds of dollars sunk into action figures and toys.
Most of the pre-Disney fans dislike the new movies. They also love the Mandalorian, because it brings in something new to Star Wars while respecting the legacy established canon rather than disregarding it. The Mandalorian is more popular than the Disney Sequel trilogy, and is more likely to carry canon story elements forward as a result of that. There's talk of using some dubious cartoon-level tropes from the Star Wars Rebels cartoon in order to effectively undo and erase the Sequel trilogy from the Star Wars timeline. That's a massive middle finger to Mary Sue Palpatine and Kathleen "Force is Female" Kennedy and her all female activist story group.
There are two levers being used by each group in this fight. The Disney fans are using social media and mob shaming, mostly aimed at Gina Carano, but also at the Mandalorian show in general. It's the element keeping the whole franchise afloat, that the legacy fans still like and give money to. The pre-Disney fans are mostly quiet, and use money as their weapon. Sequel trilogy toys sold like dead flies sitting on cow patties. Video games in Star Wars are hit or miss for the market. Stuff set in the OT era or Old Republic sells well, stuff set in the Disney Sequel era does poorly. De-canonizing the hundreds of Star Wars novels that we all read didn't set well with us, and we're not buying any new novels as a result. And we're not flocking to the theaters to re-watch the Sequels multiple times, or particularly ravenous to buy them on boxed media. I lost count of how many boxed sets of VHS, laser disc and DVD of the various pre-Disney 6 movies I had. And we're not going to their new Star Wars theme park, set in Sequel territory. But we are consuming the Mandalorian.
Pissing off the pre-Disney fans will torpedo the franchise, in my opinion. Destroying the Mandalorian will cause the pre-Disney fans to abandon it all together. Carano is the kind of female protagonist that the pre-Disney fans like. She plays a unique character, but her character has the same stature as Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor or Diana Prince. I hope to see her Alderaanian arc play out through more of the show, to see some pain and some challenges and growth as a result of that. She's got a lot more to offer to the story than Mary Sue Palpatine did to the Sequel trilogy.