You act like something got taken away from him. He sold the company. He chose to do it. He didn’t want to do this anymore. Your definition of creative bankruptcy is, itself, bankrupt. Your idea of how movies get made doesn’t seem to be built out of anything other than behind-the-scenes documentaries on Star Wars - and even that ignored everything that doesn’t fit into a pre-established mythologized idea of Lucas The Creator. That’s why it sounds like you’re just using buzzwords for the sake of feeling self-righteous.

All that really matters is whether the movies are good at what they’re trying to do. That’s all that’s ever mattered from the audience POV. Everything else is just fantasy football for people who hate sports.

Nobody who ever became a fan of these movies in their youth did so because they knew a lick of ANYTHING about how the movies were made. Using behind-the-scenes myths as the basis for your dislike doesn’t make any sense. You weren’t behind-the-scenes at any point and it doesn’t really matter if you were. All that matters is whether the movie is good at doing what it wants to do. Star Wars does this sometimes. Other times it doesn’t.

But the notion that it needs to follow a single, “true” path to creation and any variations off that path matter just as much, if not more, than the final product? I don’t agree with that at all. I don’t work at Lucasfilm, or for Lucasfilm, so how they made it literally has nothing to do with me and my role in this - which is to do nothing more than simply watch a thing and hopefully like it.