[Mose Harper]

Showing cells of nascent rebels disorganized and dangerously destructive to their own interests was a solid dramatic point to make.
My beef with that sequence (and it's dramatic effectiveness) was that the pacing was off and much could have been excused and the point still hammered home. Ultimately it was obvious the writer needed a stall tactic to keep Andor away from his compatriots for the other events to unfold like they did.
Also some of the performances/scripting of that goofball bunchwere a little too tonaly dissonant to the rest of the show for me.

To be fair, the first ep and half of the second I was watching via spectrum. Between the commercials and buffering every four minutes, it was taking me two hours to watch 50 minutes of content (no lie).
This all might play better for me if/when I can watch it via physical media.