Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.
Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.
The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then…use it as a saber.
To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn’t exist.
I should go back and read that again, I remember loving it so much. Also remember when Disney announced that the extended universe would be discarded to make room for new cannon and how much my heart sank hearing it.
I fully support a reread!
=D
Also, because I am in nitpick mode:
Canon is a body of work accepted as legitimate, official, standard, etc.
Cannon is what you fire a cannonball with.
=P
Anyway, I’m off to go enjoy a dessert in a desert.