The difference I don't think you're getting is that there is a pretty common consensus from these past few pages (including my own post about it) in that a land tied directly to an IP should be executed differently than a land created based on something like a location (Main St., New Orleans Square) or an idea (Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Tomorrowland) because they are trying to execute different things. When you have a land that is directly based on a single IP there is a reason that IP is so beloved and you want to capture that. People have connections to the things they see in Star Wars, they don't have a connection to the idea of a war torn beaten down town, they have connections to the ones they've seen. Even if they didn't want to build a land that was a recreation of Mos Eisley or some other location in the movie they could have created a land that knows what it is (a theme park land, not an actual location within the universe) and incorporated multiple things that are from the movies. The land itself could be Batuu but they could've put the actual Mos Eisley Cantina in the land because that is what we recognize and love from the movies.
I'm not gonna argue the whole multiple area theme park land versus a single location hyper realistic decision, but I think you need to understand that they should have included things we actually know when we are referencing a specific IP. NOS knows its a theme park land and has entertainment and idealizations which create a fun experience, if they wanted you to actually believe you were in NOS they wouldn't add all the fun whimsical stuff that people enjoy like the performers and the pirate boat ride within a normal building. GE doesn't have any of that fun stuff, there are no shows of lightsaber fights (which were supposed to be included) and there's only 3 actual walkaround characters (Rey, Chewie, Kylo) and one made up character nobody knows about. The Millenium Falcon ride doesn't even have Han Solo, you know, the Falcon's owner, because it is supposed to take place after he died in the movies. They limit themselves in what they can do because of this weird obsession of the land being canon in the timeline, which was then immediately ruined because Kylo dies in TROS yet he's still here on Batuu. If it's gonna be in the timeline why set it between two of the movies on a planet we've never heard of in the slightest? The land doesn't do what a theme park land should do first which is give you a fun experience. In a more direct comparison Cars Land is an actual place from the movies but it understands it's a theme park land so they have the fun shows and a great E-Ticket Ride that doesn't have to pretend that it is something that actually happened in universe.
