Pulp storylines have co-existed with "future looking" conceit driven SF in publishing for over a century. And, of course, they can co-exist in the same work. I

Pulp storylines have co-existed with "future looking" conceit driven SF in publishing for over a century. And, of course, they can co-exist in the same work. If Star Wars had an impact, beyond greatly expanding the SF market, it was in breaking the ability of a narrow set SFF fans and writers to pretend that all science fiction was (or could be, or should attempt) was something like "produce pleasurable estrangement by imagining the impact of some unfamiliar future technology" and that "space opera", originally a slur, was some outside thing, over there, separate from the genre. You weren't going to be able to keep the kids on the moisture farm after they had seen the galaxy.