I’m of two minds on the Maul thing. I think bringing him back was a dumb idea and I’d never have done it if I was a showrunner, but once they’d done it they did go on to do some genuinely interesting things with him.
Wasn’t it Geroge’s idea?
Most of that show came from George’s ideas.
But that’s the key: they’re just his ideas. Not his writing or direction.
And?
And he’s a good ideas man, but he’s a bad editor, and not the best director. His ideas really only are done proper justice when he has a team of people to bounce things off of. That is, people who aren’t afraid to be critical and can point out when an idea or the implementation of it is bad.
Suffice it to say one reason (of the myriad) why the Prequels and SE changes are panned is because no one overruled George to say certain things shouldn’t be done, in contrast to the original Original Trilogy.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk
How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit.