It's a show about small people in a very big galaxy. Not a one of them would come out of the Total Perspective Vortex alive.
But that makes them so relatable. You can see small things like how the tension goes out of Lt. Meero when her boss defends her to his boss. She might be a cog in the workings of a fascist regime,* but we've all had those meetings, when our career depends on approval from the higher-ups.
* Which I think for the first time we're now also seeing on the personal (as opposed to the "blowing up planets") scale. Andor being arrested and sentenced simply for being in wrong place, prisoners' sentences being doubled with no explanation, and their treatment in general, Bix being arrested based purely on assumption.