Just binged this last weekend after having a hard SW burn out due to ob1.
This show really felt like reading a book. The build up, the slow pace, I liked almost everything; sometimes it felt like he wanted to tell a story, or add some background, and someone said no cut this bs and he had to abandon it; the tribal gathering near the dam is one of them; the story of cassian sister and what happened on his homeworld is another.
I know I'm late for the robot vs human in the jail stuff; it didn't strike me as a mistake "since droid could do it better". Even in the most automated manufacturing line, pins and bushes are added manually, and some bolting are also made manually. Human are very agile and almost free in this case.
But we can discuss days and nights, that'd be sterile.