Mae, sure, and that’s great, in that they are building a consistent world, but it also constrains your storytelling. The more you overlaps characters and settings, the more constrained you are.
I think the first season did it pretty much perfect. They were references to things we knew, but not so many that anything really needed to be explained; Those references were not constraining. There was no overlap with other stories or characters to any great extent.
Similarly, I think you could mention Boba Fett in passing in an episode, acknowledging that he exists in this universe, but once you bring him on screen, he brings with him his whole history throughout every medium. It’s the fact that everything is Canon which creates a storytelling problem whenever someone with in universe history is introduced - You are not allowed to contradict what went before.
So I’m not saying you don’t need to be consistent with the rest of the universe – you always do. But it’s easier to do that, and still tell the story you want to tell, if your story takes place in a small pocket of the universe using characters who are completely new.