I’ll second that. I followed the old EU for a while, but after so many planet/Star destroying superweapons and Force users becoming so overpowered that you think, man if Obi-Wan or Vader had half this much power in the OT, they would have been completely different movies, I had to give up the nonsense of it all. Not that there weren’t some excellent stories, just so many ridiculous ones too.
The EU was 50% well intentioned writers who just didn’t get Star Wars, 40% malicious writers who wanted to change what Star Wars was, and 10% great additions.
I personally liked all of the absolute insane nonsense (Luke falling in literal romantic love with a giant spaceship, for example), but I also liked the good bits (eg the Falcon’s triple computer brain that always argues with itself) which they cherry picked for the new stuff.
It was the EU’s time to go, and I don’t miss it. It’s still around as Legends, and it’ll always be a particularly eclectic and surreal part of Star Wars history.