I felt the same.
To be fair though, I found TFA and TLJ to be pretty forgettable too. In fact, I can only think of Rey's theme off the top of my head.
That's because without the retarded jump in special effects the originals had, IV, V, and VI would have been almost completely forgettable too.
People weren't going back to the theaters 7, 8, and 9 times so that they could watch Alec Guinness wobble about when he felt a loss in the force, or to listen to two incompetent guards talk about the cool new space-sports-car that was coming out soon.
They came for laser swords, and space ships exploding. Hell, they came to watch the opening crawl move
away, instead of just
up, that's how
low their expectations of special effects were, compared to what they got.
VII, R1, and VIII don't have that leg up of amazing special effects compared to what we
expect.
Even those of us that saw star wars for the first time on VHS as kids over deify those movies, because at the time they were
still some of the best looking movies we'd have seen. TV sure wasn't pulling those sort of effects off, and anything else that had come out that looked so pretty were movies that TV wouldn't air due to ratings, or we couldn't see in theaters because of ratings.
You start a kid these days on episodes VII, VIII, and (eventually) IX, and I guarantee they'll like them more than the originals, cause they'll feel a bond with 7-9 (having seen them first) and because at the end of the day, the original star wars flicks were just pretty-darn-good hero's journey films, with
perfect timing when it came to special effects.