I don't get the obsession with the character...

I think I sorta do, in that we've always known so little about him that we've all imagined our own stories with the character over the years. He's been, for the most part, a blank canvas you can paint on. The prequels have already done plenty of damage in that respect. This show should just about finish him off. The mystique is what made him so interesting.

The book The Mandalorian Armor is what made me love him. It demonstrates how badass he really is. It picks up right after the Sarlac eats him.

He looks cool, sounds cool, had an air of mystery about him (before the prequels), has a unique-looking ship even by Star Wars standards with a cool name (before the change), and was one of the few characters able to talk to Vader on equal footing without getting choked and killed.

And yet, he had a very lame "death" in Return of the Jedi, that was unforgivable. But then, in both the Legends continuity and the Disney continuity, it turned out he survived, so his reputation wasn't completely tarnished.

I’m with the OP. He’s a big yawn, and his fans are not my kind of people.

I think because the action figure was cool. It was my favourite Star Wars figure as a kid.

Some people like badass, morally ambiguous bounty hunters. There have been many Expanded Universe books written on his adventures that his fans have read, and bounty hunter is one of the more popular roles to play in online and tabletop games involving Star Wars, mostly due to the unpredictable adventures that ensue.

Reminds me of the strange obsession people had with Hunk in Resident Evil.

It’s not the character. It was simply a cool costume at the time Empire came out. That’s it.

Then like everything else with the franchise, it was run into the ground.