That's a good take Rimbo.
I just binged it this past week. Agree with most of what's been written about Syril. Really a great character and added a lot of depth to the show IMO. The first three episodes were killing me, even if I got the point of what was going on. While I really did enjoy the show, a few other notes/questions:
1) I don't get the scene with Perrin at the end - After her speech, Mon Mothma is a fugitive, public enemy #1. Yet a year later, Perrin is just partying around Corusant at the end, banging the crime dude's wife? They would have locked him up 5 seconds after that speech and probably exectured him shortly thereafter. Am I missing something? A shot of him in a jail cell makes more sense.
2) Dedra - It's so incredibly important that the Rebels have no information about the Death Star that in Rouge One they send out Vader to recover them from the Rebel command ship and as a last ditch effort they vaporize the Sacriff base and thousands of otherwise just normal Imperial personel, while Dedra's incompetance is what leaks the Death Star existance in the first place and all she gets is prison? Given Krenik's propensity to pretty much kill anyone and everyone that doesn't perform adequately, and Tarkin's too, that seems highly unlikely. Her before a firing squad at the end would have been more accurate.
3) Bix is a selfish cunt. Assuming of course that baby is Cassian's, which it seems is implied, after going on several times about making choices and even scolding Cassian for not making his own choices, she denies him the right to make a choice about whether he wants to help raise his kid or keep fighting? All because some Force healer thinks he has a destiny. Screw her. That was for Cassian to decide, not her. And why go back to Mina-Rau? She's illegal, no visa there, and while it HAD been 8 years since the Imperials came around to do an inventory when things went to shit, there's no guarantee they will wait another 8 years. Seems she should have gone elsewhere. But again, she's a selfish cunt so screw her.