This is why I think studios listening to fans can sometimes be a problem. Kennedy, Iger and Abrams were probably reluctant to use George’s treatments because of how poorly fans received the prequels (yeah, people still hated the prequels as recently as 2012), so they wanted to go in a different direction. But sentiment has changed and fans apparently love George Lucas and the prequels now, so after Carrie passed away and they had to scrap Trevorrow’s script entirely (assuming) to rewrite the story without Carrie, Abrams and Kennedy may have seen this as an opportunity to work with George and reestablish some of his ideas in order to please the new fan consensus and add legitimacy to the trilogy in the eyes of detractors. Personally, I don’t know how much they really care about this, but I can see a number of reasons why they would want to consult with George. But from an optics perspective it definitely wouldn’t hurt them either, not the same way it would’ve been seen only seven years ago.