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Isn't it that Old Ben was thinking of highly trained clones and had pretty much no stormtrooper experience in decades?
Like, he'd been living in a hunting the middle of a desert for 20 years intentionally staying away from anything dangerous.
I haven't watched Ahsoka or Kenobi yet (probably never will... for either) but wouldn't one of those have resulted in Obi-Wan being familiar with stormtroopers over clone troopers?
But also, watch stuff like Andor or Rogue One or even some of the more OT-era animations. Stormtroopers are still terrifying if you aren't a protagonist with plot armor (that I guess is subconsciously using The Force to deflect shots). And this would have been less of a high stress battle and more an ambush/execution.
But also? Obi-Wan is clearly kind of a manipulative asshole. He took Anakin's son and basically trained him into an assassin to neutralize Vader and stop Palpatine. He also specifically did not tell Luke to maybe not have the hots for the cute princess hologram that he 100% knew was his twin sister.
Why would he say "Well, this could have been an ambush by those random people who have a history of ambushing stuff and fucking shit up?" versus "oh yeah. This is The Empire. You should totally go stop Vader". Also, he might be aware of the ethnic cleansing that Anakin did against the Tuskens and is extra trying to avoid a repeat of that.
Maybe he was worried that Luke would go down the same path his father would, so he kept things vague. That was always my take on Old Ben -- he wasn't really guiding Luke to do anything, it was the Force. "Luke, your father was actually a dangerous madman who slew younglings. In fact, is the right hand man, that academy you were joining? It's Space Fascism, so definitely don't go and join it to be with your father." lol
On the topic of the other two -- Personally, I liked Kenobi. It has some sillier bits, but nothing IMO that isn't easily explained (as an example, there's a scene where young Leia is chased by mercenaries and she kinda dunks on them. People hate it. I think it was a clear example of her Force Sensitivity, so I don't mind it at all.) Its main shortcoming for me was the villains could have been better and Reva was a bit predictable. I didn't think she was as bad as the Internet did.
Ahsoka... I wanted to like. It had a lot of potential, most of my issues were that it seemed like they were filming a video game, but since we're not playing Ahsoka we end up just watching her interact with things we have no meaning for. Other than that, it was decent save for what they did to Sabine, which was just a disgrace to her character. Sabine was disappointing, over and over again. Overall, I think it has been my least favorite of the Star Wars shows as it has had the most visible quirks and awkward shots.
As a continuation of that story it's pretty decent and I'm excited for S2. But as a continuation of that story, the characters were not as strong as I felt they could have been. Time passed and people change, that's fine. This wasn't quite that though.