Well, it were specifically B1 mass production droids which were made incredibly cheap and so with, let’s say, not the best AI ever. A rare model like HK-47 was superior to usual (neither Force-amplified nor decades-of-training-behind-Mandalore) humans; and the latter case could also be a difference in available weaponry (if your weapon cannot penetrate amplified beskar armor and you only find this out in the moment of attack, you’d need to be very smart to immediately find a way to win or retreat before the Battle Reflexes guy shuts you off).
As for FTL—I wouldn’t be so sure, history of research sometimes makes strange jumps. Romans were this close to going all steampunk, and a naive modern observer could say “having steam machines without gunpowder seems unlikely”. Currently we don’t know what, if anything, could provide FTL, and the solution could jump on us unexpectedly and unrelatedly to AI development.
Well, it were specifically B1 mass production droids which were made incredibly cheap and so with, let’s say, not the best AI ever. A rare model like HK-47 was superior to usual (neither Force-amplified nor decades-of-training-behind-Mandalore) humans; and the latter case could also be a difference in available weaponry (if your weapon cannot penetrate amplified beskar armor and you only find this out in the moment of attack, you’d need to be very smart to immediately find a way to win or retreat before the Battle Reflexes guy shuts you off).
As for FTL—I wouldn’t be so sure, history of research sometimes makes strange jumps. Romans were this close to going all steampunk, and a naive modern observer could say “having steam machines without gunpowder seems unlikely”. Currently we don’t know what, if anything, could provide FTL, and the solution could jump on us unexpectedly and unrelatedly to AI development.