After more than a decade, who’s seeing these films again except for children who’ve watched Clone Wars and Rebels? Again, they have the lightsabers and special effects, and when watching them in numerical order the Prequels ruin the originals to such a degree, and the ‘originals’ are available in such poor quality, that the quality difference between the two trilogies isn’t that great.

So in summary, you have the initial inflated reviews from people who saw them before the effects became dated and before the story was revealed for the empty exercise it was. Then the bulk of the reviews are from people who are actually nostalgic for the prequels since they saw them as children in conjunction with a cartoon that apparently did the main character justice.