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Certainly controversial. On what grounds? Dystopian is just about the only box you can check here, and even that is pretty questionable. The Republic wasn't great, but it worked mostly. The Empire did bad things, but was effective. in both cases they're almost entirely avoidable if you want to fuck off to the Outer Rim or an abandoned planet.
There's high tech, but I don't see the "low life" part of it. Certainly not anything worse than any other genre. There is no focus on how the technology combined with authoritarianism or capitalism is making things worse for the average person. Not even the common trappings used in a different way, like Ai or body augmentation. Star Wars is ultimately hopeful and not cynical either. Destiny works out the way it always was going to.
In fact, Star Wars is much more of a fantasy in terms of genre, just set in space. The magic swordsmen, the unwavering devotion to the guidelines of the hero's journey. "Why does it work that way/why does it look like that?" "Because it's cool." That's how Star Wars works.
Cyberpunk is not "tech with some sort of rebellion in it". The more I think about it the more I have no idea why you would say this.