Originally Posted by Grim Portent
You're assuming a lot of competence on the part of the people who make droids….
If droids were as bad as all that, they would’ve gone out as poor value and unreliable long ago. Most likely there are quadrillions of droids quietly performing their functions competently and unremarkably. A handful of oddball individuals doesn’t demonstrate that the implementation of droid labor on a galactic scale is hopelessly flawed.

And I just don’t get all the Threepio hate. He’s a protocol droid who’s dragged everywhere except situations where protocol is valued. He’s out of his depth and out of his preferred work environment, but it’s never once occurred to me to hate him for it.