Whenever people complain about their favorite intellectual property from their childhood becoming “woke” it’s usually because it simply went over their heads as kids.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure Star Wars was all that woke. As in, I'm not convinced it was interntionally done that way. I doubt too many of the people making it had much awareness of those aspects of what they were making in terms of concious political statement, and more "this is a cool story, the template has these tropes, and it keeps things simple".

It was perhaps less "woke" and more accedentally playing in that arena.