BiggsFan44 said:
I agree with you in practice, it’s more of a logical problem for me. It’s like, Episode 7 kind of implies an embrace of the previous 6 movies.
It’s like if Harry Potter 7 was clearly a response to the percieved failings of the first 3 Potter movies.

I guess the difference is that Harry Potter was never a nostalgia trip. It was done in a clear uniform episodic stream, whereas Star Wars ended in 1983, was reborn in the late 90s and ended again in 2005, and now reborn in 2015 and beyond. So with each ‘rebirth’ has been a pressure to juggle nostalgia with forward motion and try to accomodate everything in between. And each rebirth has resulted in some fans falling by the wayside and/or not agreeing with the direction taken.

I get your point though. It’s annoying to have been a fan of a series, and have the new mantra be “well that sucked, let me fix it for you”. Don’t forget that Lucas did a similar thing when he retooled the OT to suit his prequels, and then set about erasing the unaltered OT from history! Luckily, like I said earlier, Star Wars canon is easy to take a la carte.