But where are you getting the idea that Disney is making Lucasfilm stay away from prequel era storytelling in the sequel trilogy?

If you’re going to be infuriated by their (whose? Disney’s? Lucasfilms? Trevorrows? Abrams?) shortsightedness it helps to actually know whether or not they’re having the vision problems you’re diagnosing in the first place.

There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy in place for questionable decisionmaking to appear. That can happen completely independently, and often does. I understand that it can be more comforting to imagine an effort to screw things up leading to things we don’t like showing up in a movie, but the uncomfortable truth is that a lot of the stuff that goes wrong is often just… unforced errors.

And considering most of the time we don’t actually know what’s going on behind closed doors focusing SO much time and energy on outright GUESSING why a decision was made and getting mad about that guess as if it was fact seems like wasted energy, especially since ultimately it doesnt’ change the fact of what we did get, and why it doesn’t work ON IT’S OWN.