I think that yes, the prequels are that bad, but that doesn’t particularly bother me anymore. It rankled before the Disney acquisition when the Star Wars series was a closed system and half of it sucked, but now I feel about them the way I do about bad Bond movies. Yeah, Die Another Day sucks, but I’m not angry it exists, and if it’s on TV some slow afternoon I’ll probably watch a chunk of it and be mildly entertained by how misguided it is. There are a handful of set pieces in the PT that I genuinely enjoy, and I was young enough when TPM and AOTC came out that they still kind of work for me as nostalgic junk food (ROTS is my least favorite SW film, and I’m sure the main reason I’m harder on it than the other prequels is because I was well into my teens by the time it came out). I also think I’m just past the point where hating things is fun. It feels a lot better to say “eh, yeah, whatever” to the prequels than it does to get all worked up about it.