I blame the Ewoks.
Everything since then has been a total disaster, including the last installment.
There’s no way Hollywood can make a competent Star Wars nowadays. The universalism of outer space is guaranteed to blow their SJW tendencies into a leftist supernova. They cannot escape the gravitational attraction.
Thus they will make the leap into hyperliberalspace, and it will suck.
Agree about the Ewok cancer. That film would have been 100% better with some non-”cute” race of critters. I saw the Phantom Menace in the theater and knew I was done with the Star Wars franchise forever before the credits rolled.
***I blame the Ewoks.**
Especially those two horrid Ewok made-for-TV movies.
Then there is a disaster of some Christmas TV special from thirty five years ago.