Emphasising that nobody should carry a gun, but wait, someone did and something happened because of it is clunky and nothing to do with rogue one.
One of the good parts about rogue one is that it had an established ending too, but still told a good story, well. Andor is doing the same for the most part.
I mean considering we know it ends with Rouge One and generally sits within a larger established universe, that seems somewhat unavoidable.
Emphasising that nobody should carry a gun, but wait, someone did and something happened because of it is clunky and nothing to do with rogue one.
One of the good parts about rogue one is that it had an established ending too, but still told a good story, well. Andor is doing the same for the most part.
Pretty much the last 3 episodes were about tying it all together with the beginning of Rogue One.
I would say that the story of Andor can only be judged independently of external concernes by excluding those last 3 episodes.