@deinol Always a requirement. Sometimes the WEG SW modules carried a big "you guys aren't even the B team to Luke, Leia, and Han, you're the F team, and we write these modules to remind you how insignificant you are to the war effort.
But since there's no leveling up mechanism, there's no way for WEG write the "you are pretty skilled now" adventures... and your PCs start pretty damn competent. It's a weird flex by the designers to code it that way.