The only really good things to come out of the EU are PC games and mods.
You clearly need to read more then.
Lucasfilm kept the film novelizations in canon.
I’m pretty sure that’s not true. The only things they outright said were going to be in the Disneyverse were the six films and TCW series and movie (CG, not 2D), plus all Disney content going forward.
Unless of course they’ve since come out and said the novelisations for I - VI are also part of the Disneyverse, but I don’t recall them every saying so.