In an ideal world, George Lucas would have kept directing and writing films, keeping his craft sharp.
Yeah… that didn’t really work out.
I know one thing for sure: George Lucas can make really, really bad Star Wars films.
I suspect something else: without him, there will be no more great Star Wars films.
George only directed ONE great SW film and three mediocre to terrible ones. TFA was better than any of the prequels.
So I will settle for very good or good SW films rather than mediocre and terrible ones.