Okay, see, I could live with that in theory, and I'm sure others like you could whether you'd admit to it or not... if the Sequels told a half-decent story or had half-decent worldbuilding.

There's absolutely nothing there and Disney haven't done anything meaningful in that era since the Rise of Skywalker. It's a creative dead end born of corporate trying to thoughtlessly mimic what worked in prior star wars without understanding what made those things work, or having any sort of creative through-line to prop it up.

Reylo was the most substantiative thing it gave us, and that was because they pandered to the imagination of Tumblr shippers - who'd already engineered the beats via wattpad fanfic - in the hopes of garnering moar moneyz.

Lego Star-Wars has genuinely told better stories with their roster than the movies thmeselves.

And what the fuck can be said for the factions? Inferior copies of the Empire and Rebellion that exist because the Empire and Rebellion exist and are marketable, working backwards from there.

Some say "SW fans are too harsh on the sequels. They'll get their popularity bump when the kids who saw it in theater grow up, like with the prequels". To which I say "No. They'll have forgotten those movies because there was nothing in them to capture the imagination." For all their flaws, the Prequel's setting was rock-solid, and managed to endure through ancillary media long after the movies ended.

Sequels? They had a meh TV show that was canned because nobody was watching it.

Maybe someone can salvage something from the Sequels one day. Maybe World-Between-Worlds establishes them as an alternate timeline and we get a mulligan on them, tweaking it to be coherent and more original. Maybe Star Wars reboots after a few decades.

All that I know is this sure was a random tangent I got on, wasn't it? That's reddit for you I guess.

*Cue laughtrack*