I wouldn't worry about sales hurting. A lot of people like it -- including me -- CNN was the only major media outlet with an outright negative review, and it's still hovering in the 90s on Rotten Tomatoes. I recommend
this review/analysis for people who liked it and people who didn't. He put it into better words than I could. My biggest criticism is that it needed to be two films, to properly let things develop and breathe. I want a small-scale
Supremacy to go along with same-scaled
Executor,
Imperial, and
Resurgent Star Destroyers. I want a model in some decent scale (1:72 would be nice, but given they haven't even done a 1:72 U-Wing...) of the
Starfortress bomber. I
seriously want Kylo's TIE SIlencer in 1:72...
And I'm looking forward to Solo and Episode IX, too (and their ships), for what it's worth. It took me a bit to get over the shock that the post-ROTJ EU was utterly gone (moreso than the earlier stuff, which is ongoingly getting sifted in to the new canon), but once I accepted that things hadn't gone the way I was used to, I've been excited to see what
does happen. I miss some parts of the old material, but as much, if not more, I really had issues with. Things like Han and Leia drifting apart over what happened to Ben make me sad, but it works for me, storywise. I actually like the "there are no happily ever afters" thrust of this new era.
--Jonah