He could have built, you know, a junkyard mechanic droid, or a general manual labor droid, or a Bitcoin-mining droid, or a freedom-fighter droid? No, he builds a fussy butler. The silliness of this just hit me. 
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Agreed. I could never suffer the pain of going back through episodes 1-3 to figure out if this made any sense at all, but to the extent I allowed myself to be perplexed by it, I have been befuddled.