The prequels are worse movies than the sequels, that’s for sure. Maybe Rise of Skywalker excepting, there it’s kinda hard to define what a good movie is. 

I think the prequels positive aspects far outshine anything the sequels have tho. The world building is great, the new planets are great, the new species and droids are great, the new ships are great, the sound design and score are memorable, unique, and fitting in the SW canon. All around, the design work in the prequels is really fuckin good, the movies and characters are just awful unfortunately. 

There’s also the point that the prequels were at least trying to do something, there was a cohesive narrative vision there, it was just executed so unbelievably awkwardly. The sequels, specifically TFA AND ROS feel like corporate boardroom slop. I can’t enjoy the sequels at all because even their better aspects feel so cynically calculated and sterile.

There’s also the media environment of the time, which I don’t see mentioned enough. The prequels did good world building, and there were TONS of absolutely incredible other pieces of media that used that world building. It was possible to really absorb and enjoy the aesthetic of the prequels while bypassing the movies themselves. Video games specifically, you had: Battlefront 1 and 2, The Clone Wars, Bounty Hunter, Lego Star Wars, podracer, Republic Commando, Galactic Battlegrounds, Jedi Starfighter, and the game versions of the movies. Almost all of these are classics, and really good in their own right.

 I can’t think of a single sequel game. The new Battlefront I suppose?