A lot of people have complained of the ANH imagery used in TFA, and how obvious it was. And there have been people who said similar things of RO (like RedLetterMedia, if you focus on the actual good points they had on RO).
ANH imagery in R1 makes sense, as R1 is set moments before ANH; I’d be worried if there wasn’t ANH imagery.
TFA on the other hand is set 30 years after ROTJ and relies heavily on ANH/OT imagery; that is far more grievous a crime than for a movie set during the OT era to use those visuals.