After Rogue One, and without defending the Prequels from a cinema POV, I can confess that in Star Wars I care and only care about characters that have been there directly or indirectly since the 80s. Prequels have them, sequels don’t.

No matter how badly written they are, I’ll always be interested in watching movies about Obi Wan, Anakin, Luke, Leia, Yoda, Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, the Rebels, the Empire, the Emperor, etc.

The only value I had in ST were the old trio. With Han Solo dead, and Leia written out, and an absolutely flawed plot that still has the rebels as a fringe fraction and an Imperial remnant centered in the periferia of the galaxy (if anything, it should be the other way round), Kiloren or Rey or Orange Yoda just are meaningless to me.

So yes, there are fans that still have a soft spot for the PT, independently of how shitty it is.

Suggesting ideas I post, and think, and try as much as life allows me, to bring approaches and concepts and ideas to fix the PT, because I want them so bad to be good movies. I don’t have a clue about how to fix TFA just because subconsciously I never cared about what happened after ROTJ.