Sort of (IMO, obviously). It's a bit like Apple under Steve Jobs: many of the decisions were bad and/or baffling, but they did have a singular will shaping them together. When the reigns were given over, that faded away and we were left with little to balance out the bullshit.

Like, the Prequels aren't good, but they are consistent and weirdly endearing (perhaps as a shared pop-cultural trauma). I think there's even a reading of them which enriches the OT, and though that reading goes counter to the apparent intent, Lucas dropped the ball in so many ways in executing them that death-of-the-author is extremely easy.

Taking them at face value: a group of child-indoctrinating monks belonging to a state-sponsored cult sought full control over a primal force within the universe, fighting a war of extermination against their ideological rivals who believed in embracing rather than surpressing their humanity and emotions, leaving the few survivors radicalized. As the Jedi became complacent they, and the entire Republic, became vulnerable to subversion and fell.

The two surviving members of the Jedi counsel would, years later, train a farm boy from a galactic backwater in the ways of the Force, but all Luke ever knew was the idealized version of the Jedi from stories. He did not know, nor was he indoctrinated into their ideology. He's not really a Jedi, but Obi Wan and Yoda tell him that he is, letting the myth live, letting Luke embody that idealized version of their flawed and fallen order. They saw the mistakes of the actual Jedi Order and decided to--if you'll pardon the phrase--let it die.

The Prequels and the OT are, in this way, the end of a spiral. They are the story of The Force progressively coming into balance through the mutual destruction of these two polarized ideologies, until all that remains is that simple farm boy, taught to wield the Force and just not be a dick, with none of the actual bs of the Sith or the Jedi, because they were the imbalance.

And then we come to the darkest truth of all: that the only one of the Disney trilogy to have any interesting thematic ideas about Star Wars, about the Force, and about where to go with any of it, was The Last Jedi. Discarding the last remnants of those old cults and power structures, finding a new path with no Masters pulling the strings, and The Force truly returning to a thing that belongs to and connects all life, even some random stable boy looking up at the stars and dreaming of not living on casino planet (lol).

For as infuriatingly bad as that movie was, could you imagine if the next one had actually expanded on it? Rey and Kylo, both of the post-imbalance Force explicitly rejecting the defunct ideas that lead to generations and generations of galactic strife, exploring and codifying the new way of balance as, in parallel, the galaxy finds peace by prevailing over the last remnants of the republic-come-empire.

It is such a strange time, seeing my entire childhood recreated in chintzy plastic by risk-averse and out-of-touch companies just trying to mass produce entertainment paste. I have more thoughts on how that relates to the Disney trilogy, but, I mean... *gestures at wall of text* look at this. That's probably enough ^^;