I think a lot about Star Wars technology as it relates to the stylistic schemes of the story, and what they can do with the technology compared to what it would be thematically fitting for us to see them do.
This isn't exactly something I've gone out of my way to research, but the impression I generally have is that in the time that the OT was coming out, the visuals were meant to be believable to the viewers at that time, with the technological frame of reference of the 1970s and 1980s, when people couldn't even fathom that we might one day have real-world datapads.
More recently, as technological accelerationism has increasingly taken hold in our society, I think the idea has become more "Star Wars is an interstellar society, so it doesn't make sense for them not to always use all the devices we invent to make our lives easier, and more."
And I don't think that's exactly right. As far as I can figure it, that civilization's frame of reference for these things is probably very different from ours. The Galactic Republic was founded 25053 years before the Battle of Yavin. They've had this same technological base far longer than even their longest-lived member species can remember. The galaxy has had far more than enough time to collectively realize what Earth hasn't, which is that a more complex system has more points of failure, and this shit is such old news to them that they're not excited by the idea of using it to make their lives easier, like we are.
Like, digital graphics displays for us get higher-resolution all the time just because we can. Those same displays in Star Wars look like garbage to us because they don't need that level of detail to serve their purpose.
I have absolutely no doubt that the people in that galaxy could make an Alexa or what have you. But if those people were presented with the idea, I think instead of "Ooo, it makes things easier because I can talk to it from anywhere," their first thought, as a collective cultural outlook, would be "I can do those same things perfectly fine by walking over to a computer and doing it myself."
