Agreed. Too much damage had been done already. Disney should have rebooted after The Last Jedi, but instead have been making trash after trash for years after that. The problem with the Disney Star Wars is that they feel manufactured, and lacked soul. Their plot typically revolves around a band of brats, led by annoying matriarchs, huddled together in a Millennium Falcon, or another similar kind of ship and going on some adventure. They were actually more like Guardians of the Galaxy than Star Wars. They lack the soul of the original Star Wars films. Rogue One is kinda the exception from Disney. It was decent, but still doesn't feel like a Star Wars film.
Most people set the Original Trilogy as the benchmark. But the Star Wars that I grew up with and wanna focus on are the Prequel Trilogy. While they also had plenty of flaws and annoying characters, they had soul. They were fun to watch even to this day. Those prequel Star Wars had actual world building, while the worldbuilding in the Disney Star Wars is lazy. I can still remember Naboo, Tatooine, Coruscant, Kamino, and Geonosis very well, but I hardly remembered the worlds in the Disney films. When there were side plots, in the Disney films, they were pointless and time wasters. But the Prequels had interesting subplots. Episode I had the Sidious-Maul and Pod Racing subplots. Episode II had the Jango Fett subplot (the Anakin-Padme romance subplot was boring, but they at least had a purpose). And Episode III had the Palpatine and Anakin subplot. The main plots of the Prequels were original and distinct from the Original Trilogy. But for the Disney films they felt like a remix of the Original Trilogy. The Prequels made us feel like there was an actual galactic war going on. They had iconic ships, they had large set-piece battles, their lightsaber duels were impressive and serious, and they sound epic. This is the soul of Star Wars that is clearly absent in the Disney Star Wars. Disney reused all the the ships from the older films. Their battles actually felt small, despite the scale of the setting. And their lightsaber duels were atrocious, they looked like dances. The Prequel Star Wars were not masterpieces, but Disney had ruined Star Wars so much that it made me miss them so much.
When I was a young, I had always wanted to get my hands on those Star Wars visual dictionaries. Back then, the main highlight of Star Wars were the Starships, the Pod Racers, the Clone Troopers, the Battle Droids, the fashion, the various alien races, and the worlds. Today, the Disney Star Wars is focused on the individuals. The Bounty Hunter, the generic Rebel, the generic First Order officer, the fake Jedi, whatever the hell Kylo Ren is, and those dumb matriarchs like Maz Kanata. Boring. I've given up on Star Wars already. They belong more in Disneylands today than in geekfests.
