Yeah, that all sounds like slavery to me.
Star Wars has probably the most realistic droids in all of fiction.
Why would anyone engineer and building a piece of property that was unhappy being property? If someone was going to come along and say, "Well, it shouldn't be property because it's too intelligent", you wouldn't build it in the first place. The whole point of building something is to own it. And it's just bad engineering to make self-aware property that isn't content and happy to be property. Indeed, it's probably immoral on several levels to engineer a piece of property that isn't content to be property, both because it would represent cruelty to the thing created, and a danger to the yourself and others. There are laws in the Star Wars universe that hold you culpable if you engineer a droid that decides it doesn't want to be property. What kind of idiot would do that?
See and the cyberware thing kind of hints that there is a ton of technology that exists that doesn't really feature regularly in a "normal" Star Wars story.
It certainly does exist in normal Star Wars. It features heavily in "Empire Strikes Back", for example.
If cyberware does exist and is in any way useful, and possible even able to enhance capabilities or quality of life then why ain't the whole galaxy jacked up Cyberpunk 2077 style? Just because it isn't a normal thing in featured in regular Star Wars stories doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Because like Cyberpunk 2077, it generally doesn't enhance quality of life. It's effected by ECM and ion weapons in way normal organic tech isn't. People that overuse cyber-ware particularly for non-medical reasons have all the sorts of problems with cyberwar you'd expect, immune system rejection, inflammation, pain, sensory hallucinations, poor sleep, etc. Additionally, it's more hackable than normal organic tech and you are lucky if you get it put in and it doesn't have a backdoor. For non-medical uses, you also need to obtain a proper occupational waiver to install it, as the Empire generally frowns on installing cyber-ware that has potential dual military or espionage usage. It's also the sort of thing that gets frowned upon socially and carries stigmas because of its association with droids. And so forth.
The thing about Star Wars is the galaxy is big enough to hold pretty much all of the rest of Science Fiction in it. Want to do Star Wars "Star Trek" - have an Exploration Corp campaign with a five-year mission to map uncharted stars systems and hyperspace lanes. Want to do Warhammer 40K Necromunda in Star Wars? Go down enough levels on Coruscant and that's what you have. You want to do Cyberpunk? Go up a few hundred levels on Coruscant or to a Corporate Sector industrial world. Pretty much any Science Fiction or Science Fantasy can be done in Star Wars.
