You know, I was really upset with the Book of Boba Fett because Fett was a bad ass and Book of Boba Fett made him look like an incompetent clown a lot of the time.
Then I started watching the Star Wars movies with my son earlier this year and when Boba Fett entered the scene, he didn't do much other than stand there or talk to Vader. The one time we get to see him in action is in Return of the Jedi when a blind Han Solo whacks him accidentally and sends him flailing into the Sarlacc Pit. That was when I realized that the Book of Boba Fett may not have been far off the mark with his competence level.
While I thought
Book of Boba Fett was a pretty meh show (except for
The Mandalorian season 2.5 they threw in there), I think it tried to accentuate Boba Fett as a thinker, not a fighter.
From the line from Vader in
The Empire Strikes Back, Boba has a rep for disintegrations, which is bad for a bounty hunter, I would think. How would that go?
Boba: "I am here to collect the bounty on Trimatt the Terrible. I killed him."
Bounty Hunter's Guild: "Great news! Where is his body?"
Boba: "I disintegrated him."
BHG: "Riiiight. No body, no bounty."
The most badass thing Boba did in the original trilogy was anticipating Han's deception with the Imperial trash, and figuring out the
Millennium Falcon was headed to Bespin to allow the Empire to get there ahead of time.
Admittedly, even in
BoBF, his plans don't always work out well, so he is not a genius. But he was able to track down his armor, and he was able to recruit allies and utilize their strengths.