Well, okay...I don't stan them.
But I have mixed feelings about them.
As a kid I was really into Star Wars and looked up to the Jedi, so I think it's a hold over from that.
The Jedi are flawed, foolish, short-sighted and kind of cowardly (among other things) and The Republic is a stagnant beasts with an inefficient anachronistic and byzantine system where the worst kind of poverty has existed for millennia.
...But I still kind of like them, despite their tragic faults.
Well...Idk if I like The Republic as depicted in Star Wars, in some ways I hate it.
But the idea of a galactic society where hundreds if not thousands of peoples and cultures are brought together to coexist is one I really like, and I can understand in the early days why the Jedi would of supported the creation of such an organization.
Of course it is just that, an idea , and the lore is filled with the many ways The Republic as a bourgeoise order failed these ideals.
Ultimately I think the Jedi erred in so closely associating themselves with and mooring themselves to a state.
Their understanding of the force and themselves is also incomplete or lacking, I think.
But at the end of the day I still like the little space wizard monks.
I respect their aim in controlling their emotions (even if it often materializes in suppression instead) and in being diplomats and peacekeepers for the galaxy (even if it often materializes in propping up an unjust status quo).
But now I am starting to ramble about children's media, which is an unforgivable crime, so I'll stop.
When I was a kid I liked the really really old republic era as presented in the Dark Horse Tales of the Jedi comic series. Long before the prequels, the jedi there were much more like ronin samurai, just kinda traveling around alone or with their mentor, helping people out or answering calls for aid, occasionally aligning with the nascent republic to fight off the invading Sith empire.
It was much more in line with what I assumed George's original conception of Jedi were, cool adventuring space warriors with no real centralized structure.
I, too, prefer the "wandering warrior monks" Jedi. Star Wars owes a lot to, well, The Hidden Fortress and similar samurai movies and I choose to imagine a world where they stuck with that motif.