Agreed. Disney is very farsighted. That's probably why Lucas wanted Star Wars in their hands rather than Fox or Warner Bros or somebody else.
I think in the next decade fans like us will be startled at how quickly the SW world starts losing its OT focus, though. The mindset that "the OT is the real thing and everything else is questionable continuations" is very prevalent for anyone born before about 1990. That bias has pervaded much longer than it would with most franchises because there was such a huge spread in quality/popularity between the older & newer trilogies.
In a few more years us OOT fans may start coming off like a fan of early Disney stuff who says, "THE disney princesses will always be Snow White & Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty. These modern ones . . . meh. Not in the same ballpark."
I think in the next decade fans like us will be startled at how quickly the SW world starts losing its OT focus, though. The mindset that "the OT is the real thing and everything else is questionable continuations" is very prevalent for anyone born before about 1990. That bias has pervaded much longer than it would with most franchises because there was such a huge spread in quality/popularity between the older & newer trilogies.
In a few more years us OOT fans may start coming off like a fan of early Disney stuff who says, "THE disney princesses will always be Snow White & Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty. These modern ones . . . meh. Not in the same ballpark."