The new movies have very deliberately sidestepped which version of the OT is canon. If they take a stance, and that stance is the SE is canon, I’m out.
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Lucasfilm has said that the SEs are the canon versions.
Heck, TFA even copied an SE shot. When Finn looks at Nima from a distance, it has ships flying around it like the SE matte painting of Mos Eisley does.