Making the Prequels with the attitude of “everybody knows the originals.” They should have assumed nobody knew anything going into it, teaching them along the way. That way, continuity with the OT would be respected.
I would agree with this as being one of the worst things in Star Wars so far. It would have been so much more interesting to follow a new cast of characters which only occasionally interacted with known heroes in order to tell a story with the potential to be surprising.