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The Rebels did win. But it’s a big galaxy. George talked about it some when he was still planning on making the next trilogy, and then it slid into the books when he gave them the bible. The Empire was an efficiency machine, lots of bureaucrats, lots of people doing their job, the Emperor just defined their job some. Hitchcock used to joke that a movie would get made just fine without a director because everybody on set knows what they’re doing, all the director does is make sure questions get answered with a single vision. That’s kind of the Empire, Emperor dies, but all the folks who do stuff still know what they’re doing, they just don’t have the single vision.

Peace was restored for a while, there’s a 30 year gap in there, but eventually problems will come up. Again that’s how life works, WWI set the pieces for WWII, which gave us the Cold War, which immanentized the War on Terror.

Jumping further would have been good, but you still wind up with a lot of the same stuff. One way or the other bad guys must rear their head and threaten the galaxy, otherwise you don’t have a story to tell. That’s epilogues, no matter how far they jump forward the first thing they have to do is undo the win. 30 years, 100 years, 1000 years, step one for the story to continue is “turns out that win wasn’t so awesome”.