Maybe it’s just because I’m too young to remember a time before the conventions of the EU were well-established, but the idea that so many people seem to find the Hutts as a species controversial is kind of baffling to me. I always thought that the concepts of Hutt Space and Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa and all the feuding clans were some of the more solid stuff to come out of the extracinematic material.
I’m even younger, and I would probably agree if I had gotten into the EU sooner. Alas, jumping in to random books (after it’d all been Legend-ed anyway) like Planet of Twilight proved to be a fatal error as it gave me Beldorion the Dark Jedi Hutt (and a headache).
Anyway, I have no problem accepting Hutt as a species, but I take it in a Yoda way, in that I don’t know/care about the rest and they may as well not exist to me.