And to be absolutely clear, I never meant to say that I “only care about official canon”, nor that I agonize or worry over canonicity. What I did mean was that

A.) it seems to me that the term “canon” is pretty meaningless if it isn’t official, and

B.) I find it to be less of a headache to just roll with the official timeline and accept that the events of, say, AOTC “count” in the universe of whatever story I’m watching/reading/playing even if I don’t like the film than it would be to maintain some kind of byzantine ever-shifting mental hodgepodge of stories and story elements I’ve cherry-picked to avoid acknowledging anything I don’t care for. I’m simply not bothered enough by the stuff I dislike existing on the timeline to put the work into building and curating a private version.

I also feel like noting that back in the Legends days, I was bothered enough by the way the entire Empire was pretty much retconned into being Palpatine’s defense against the Vong, and I did develop my own version of what should and shouldn’t count. Nothing in the new canon so far has seemed deeply wrong in the way that did, so I’m still taking it as it comes.

EDIT: Also, this shit Alderaan is trying to sell about reacting positively to the ST somehow running counter to OT.com’s raison d’être is fucking preposterous, since this whole place was around years and years before the Disney buyout was a glint in Bob Iger’s eye. One has nothing to do with the other.