Star Wars was at its best during the late 1980s into the early 1990s. You had the three original movies which were all really good, and you could watch them whenever you wanted on your VCR.
Believe it or not all the things you just described still exist.
Yes, but now there’s a whole lot of crap floating around in and polluting the Star Wars pool (bad/mediocre prequels/sequels, “special” editions, active suppression of the original movies, etc.).
Star Wars was better back when the worst thing you had to worry about were Ewoks.
Before the dark times…before the Empire!