The annoying thing about the Anakin change (to me) is that once again Lucas was changing the OT to suit his prequels when the prequels should have been made to suit the OT. Anakin died as an old man in the original canon - Lucas described him as being ‘in his 60s’ and I believe the novelisation described him as old and looking ‘not unlike Ben’. When I first saw ROTJ in '83 I felt Anakin looked like Owen Lars, which was a touching moment and conjured all kinds of speculation of what had occurred back in the day between these brothers. I can’t for the life of me understand why Lucas didn’t simply stick to the timeline and have Anakin/Hayden be around 35-40 (with Obi Wan being 45-50 or so) when Luke was born.