I disagree, I think Williams’ score as presented across both the For Your Consideration and Official Soundtracks, is one of the best things he’s done in a while! I think I’d still place the Episode 7 soundtrack above it, but Episode 9’s music is stronger than basically every Prequel’s soundtrack, and I’d argue it’s stronger than Return of the Jedi’s as well. He’s doing a lot with that music, and even setting aside the musicality of the new themes, he’s got a lot of interesting underscore that isn’t tied to themes or motifs in this soundtrack. Not just repeated string rhythms and the sort of “basic action music” he’s kind of automatically turned out ever since his Harry Potter days (there’s a lot of it in his Prequel scores, too), but complex, interesting musical movements that aren’t connected to pre-existing thematic material. He hasn’t really done that to this extent on a Star Wars movie since Empire Strikes Back, and it was really exciting to hear.

Since this is the internet, and we rank things here:

11 - Attack of the Clones
10 - Return of the Jedi
9 - Rogue One
8 - The Last Jedi
7 - Revenge of the Sith
6 - Solo
5 - The Rise of Skywalker
4 - The Phantom Menace
3 - The Force Awakens
2 - Star Wars
1 - The Empire Strikes Back

And to echo Outbound Flight - even though Attack of the Clones is at the bottom of this list, “Bottom of this list” is A-tier soundtrack. S-tier stops at #6, and A-tier starts at #7.