Yes…the vong were the shit stain that destroyed everything.
At least with “imperial warlord number 1235” you can downplay them in your mind. Hell the reborn movement was the “new empire” for a long time before “crystal star” came…now hardly anyone remembers them.
Not the vong…they literally dug their claws into everything. Turning palpatine into a revan wannabe(he wanted to save the galaxy from the vong). Thrawn became this vong hunter and his people became the sworn enemy of the vong. The only Vong related thing that worked out was the legacy comic and how racial tensions led to the rise of a new fascist galactic government