Most of what I have in mind are not things that presented themselves as objectionable during my first viewing, although the opening ‘mother’ joke certainly did. It’s the stuff that seemed to dress Star Wars down, that framed the movie as somewhat meta, rather than playing it straight.
With all the humor throughout the OT, just to avoid 3PO swapping heads with a battle droid for now, the story played as sincere. I’m thinking about Mark Hamill’s audition tape, which he says he played as earnestly as he could. TFA, although to a less obvious extent, also seems to refrain from a totally sincere approach and preferring to stick in the safety zone of a Star Wars movie about Star Wars.
I’m not sure how else to put it right now. Perhaps they feel the moviegoers of today need the winks and nods of, “Don’t worry, even the characters in the movie know this is a bit silly.” Compared to ANH, say, it’s a subtle course change that takes things off track. And who knows? Maybe there’s no way the sincere approach would have worked. But it seems a shame to me, as much as I do like the ST so far.

Rogue One has a different tone from the ST, but it seems to play things sincerely in a similar way as I am talking about. Even Solo manages to get this dynamic right, I think, just on the other side of the drama-comedy balance.

Oh, right, what thread is this? So, uh… hopefully Rian’s trilogy in which he gets to build everything from scratch won’t need to have as much deconstruction, since it’s something he personally is building up.