I am just a dumbass who doesn’t work in any film industry related jobs, so i guess ignore me. But it sure seems like there are three points that are true.

Lucas was a very early adopter of digital film-making and as a result, had to find a new way of doing things.
Digital would have eventually happened even without Lucas, not to take anything away from him, but you can’t act like he CREATED it. He isn’t a god of film-making.
The films are technically inferior because they used a technology that was not mature.