Lol, the PT only ruins the OT if you let them.
Exactly. Unfortunately non-fans/random people can easily make that choice which tarnished the reputation of SW for years. Most people here probably don’t think so because we’re still here on a fan site.
For example I know a girl who had seen one SW film years ago and because of that she wasn’t interested to see the rest at all and thought they were garbage. I figured it must’ve been one of the prequels and tried to persuade her to watch the OT as she was a big fan of LOTR and I knew she would like it. Then she was shown (I guess all of) the films and she became a big fan because of the OT and said it was probably TPM which she had seen at some point before. I knew it.