I feel like half the pieces from the new smart brick sets are wasted on ugly sidebuilds.

Specifically the xwing and vaders TIE. Maybe if they used those pieces on the ships themselves, we would have much better sets, still overpriced but did anyone really expect these to be reasonably priced after last year? In any case I believe these sets are the worst parts of lego star wars coming to a boil. I'll need a good excuse to swallow this. "Its because star wars sets need conflict between good and bad guys!", an extremely stupid philosophy to have as a designer, especially since I...