Let's face it Star Wars Ep. IV was lightning in a bottle. Ep. V was the rare, lightning striking twice. Ep. VI was like a fork in a light socket. Everything after that is like the little static shock you get from laundry in the dryer.
Lucas was an actual nerd, who also drove fast cars. He was an introvert who desired deeply to be a real boy. Hence the fast cars, and the Millennium Falcon. He had limits at this time, money and technology limits. They forced him to get frugal in what he could actually show on screen. As the money grew and technology increases his product suffered. He now has the ability to push more and more "stuff" into the films. But the restriction imposed by the limiteds funds actually tightened and enhanced the visuals and the story. Less is more. Just look at the progression or regression of the films as they appeared. They became more visually busy but the story suffers. The prequels were beautiful films visually. But the writing and acting was just bland and sometimes cringe. I.E. " The sand gets everywhere ". Lucas focused on the effects now that he had near unlimited funds. We all love effects here, but most know that effects don't make the movie.
Now Disney has followed that trend to the nth degree. They do have unlimited funds. But they don't have the Nerd. They have directors and writers that are professing fans, who aren't really fans at all. They are people who may have seen the movies once or twice, and maybe even liked it. With a few exceptions most of them are more interested in the " message " than the Star Wars story. They want to shoehorn their own political biases and agenda into everything they do. The story is secondary to the agenda. They are propagandists not filmmakers. To them if they loose a little money, or a lot is irrelevant. If they convert one person to their side, their job is done. Hell, even if no one is converted, but you piss off the other side, that is enough.
Now of course there are many people working at Disney that just want to do their jobs and get a pay check. But they are not usually the ones with creative control. They're the gaffers and electricians and 3d artists.
My only concern in all of this, is the loss of potential and possiblity. We've lost all the original characters and that is to be expected. People get old, people die. It's the way they were exited from the story that hurts. We only had a short time to get it done, and it was totally screwed up.
Again the new vision trump's everything that came before. The old guard didn't matter. They were on the way out. Let's bring in the new, and denigrate the old. The fans be damned. Let's subvert their expectations. This is my thing now. I will do it however I want. If they don't like it, it's because they're sexist, racist, misogynist, ableist, and any ist you can think of. They're not disappointed fans, they're actually bad people. We don't want their money. We don't want them as fans. Why would we. We're the righteous folks. We are the tolerant ones. Well as long as you like our garbage movies and shows. If you don't it's obviously because you hate women and people of color. So shove off you neanderthals. Crawl back under your rock, we don't need or want you. And we'll tell you so in every comment section of our trailers and on every social media platform. And so the spiral down continues.
Don't respect the source material and fans don't like it. Some non discerning latte licker might enjoy all the woke pandering you shove out. They might see it once. But they won't buy any merchandise. And they won't go back and see it again. They won't pour over part maps to find a part stuck on a filming model from 40+ years ago. They wont obsess over minutia that even the original builders can't remember. Do you have to be crazy to be a Star Wars fan ? No, but you know the rest. ; )
