Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.
Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.
The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then…use it as a saber.
To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn’t exist.
During all my life, from all the movies, EU, and games, they have specialized ships to do bombardment missions,. Y wings, and A wings for surgicals.
This fucking scene threw me off so hard… it was so fucking stupid. Just like the rest of the movie eventually.