I once walked into a full gundam panel and the panelists had gotten everyone to do the Zeon salute. You can be a fan of gundam, the characters and the robots without picking a side.
Well, in the original trilogy they really didn’t outright do anything we can clearly point to as wrong (except for blowing up a planet). We get very little information on either the rebellion or the empire except they’re the good guys or bad guys.
Star Wars in general has this problem where the good guys are squeaky clean and the bad guys are comic book villains without any background. That’s why Andor is the best thing to happen to Star Wars at least since Disney purchased them, if not ever. It actually fills out why the rebellion exists and what they have to do to survive. They aren’t these perfect good guys anymore and we get to see how boring the evil of the empire actually is, and how willing so many people are to follow along as long as it benefits them.
He breaths heavily normally, the following line could be “What, what is a ‘laser’? What do you mean it’s like a lightsaber but it doesn’t really work like a sword and it just keeps going. You can only see the middle of it if it’s going through smoke or fog or something? Well the fucks the point of that? AND THE ONES YOU CAN SEE AT ALL DON’T CUT SHIT? WELL YOU KNOW WHAT THAT’S HORSESHIT.” Yet, heavy breathing would still be an appropriate caption.
The guidelines seem to just be avoiding calling it that if there isn’t a specific reason too. I’ve got a friend named Osama; it’s the same deal. I also live in The Dominion of Canada.
I think for the Lego set it's more that the average casual fan is more likely to recognise the name 'Boba Fett' than the name 'Slave 1'. They're a commercial enterprise and they want to sell these things to a wide audience, and marketing it under a name that was never mentioned on-screen in the movies wouldn't exactly make that easier.
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