Disney's ST would have benefited from skipping ahead past Luke/Han/Leia's timespan. Their need to fan service the fuck out of the ST meant it was doomed to be "meh" from the start
The PT also sucked, and TCW didn't "redeem" it at all. It just took a terrible trilogy and expand it in all sorts of boring/useless/laughably bad ways
Kathleen Kennedy would get 5% of the hate if her name was Kevin Kennedy. The misogyny has been deep for decades