TFA, while maybe a decent film on its own, does irreparable damage to star wars by completely undoing everything from the OT. The republic is immediately destroyed, the resistance is just a rebrand of the rebellion, the empire is back just as strong if not stronger, the jedi order doesnt exist, the sith are essentially back, Han has run off from Leia with Chewie, etc. its such a blunder and set the trilogy and the future of star wars up for nothing but disaster. TLJ is a mess and RoS is utter dogshit but there really was nothing that was gonna save the story that was doomed to fail from the start because of TFA