re: Ahsoka for those like me that haven’t seen CW or Rebels

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I'm not 8 years old, so I never watched this.

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That was my standing as well until I got about 3 seasons into CW (almost all of that was the show being on as background noise as I was doing other things). Season 7 (the final season) was impressive in its depth. The only thing kid-related about that season was that it was animated. I'm more of a story guy but the animation style is off-putting and Ahsoka's voice in S1 and S2 was like nails on a chalkboard. That said, it was worth going through the series. Once. (also, I understand why they did animation over live action as the time and costs to do even half the live action things they did with animation would have been unrealistic - still, they could have used a style not as child-oriented)

A lot of the plots in the early seasons are very kid-oriented with their transparency. Still, they serve a purpose as they (laboriously) create a solid foundation for the Jedi and clone army not only working together but becoming trusted friends (or as near to that as possible within a military hierarchy). As the series winds on, it eventually matures as we see Anakin begin to struggle with following the path of the Jedi, some Jedi turning away from the Jedi Order (even betraying the Order), lots of killing (not just shooting robots) and characters making choices based on events that have shaped them over the course of the show (understand though, there's a LOT of episodes to go through so that view is arrived at only by going through lots of filler content).

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Yeah, I can agree with that.

My son was a kid and watching Clone Wars, so I was there with it being on, in the background. As it progressed, I became aware that it was no more child-oriented than the live-action movies... it was fleshing the world out. I now actually prefer the CHARACTERS of Anakin, Obi-wan, and the rest from Clone Wars (series), to what we got in the prequel movies.

Like you said, the animation style (especially for organic lifeforms) is very childish. For the static scenery and non-organic stuff, especially in the later years, it's actually approaching realism.

I think it got started as a marketing towards little kids, but Filoni quickly saw it as a way to fill in the details, without beginning to approach the costs of a single live-action film.

I haven't seen Rebels, but as it's the same creative team, I can see that taking a similar progression.

For those who take a hard line against animation = kid stuff, not sure how I'd convince you otherwise. But remember, DC and the MCU is from comic books (and cartoons), too. Lots of anime is actually aimed at adults, also.