Smart people who only hang out with other smart people are often puzzled like that.

That's applicable to half the threads around here. When people estimate other people, they often project their own minds as the template. But people are very different, and we're a particular tail end distribution.

I had a similar immediate reaction to EY's quote. Fix the story? For who? For what purpose? For us, the 0,1% tail of the distribution? The smarty smart pants adults?

Seems like Lucas went for two audiences - children, who want black and white, and morally retarded adults impressed by the moralizing point/counterpoint of Luke/Obi Wan.