So it’s fine for George to not consider the EU canon, but Disney saying the same this is a travesty. As for the new books and comics being considered canon, I don’t see anything wrong with trying to have as much continuity going forward as they can, even if it isn’t perfect.
No one is saying that. It’s to be expected that Disney would reset the EU. It made sense to do that. That’s not the problem here. The problem is that they had a chance to learn lessons from the old EU and use those lessons to create a more polished, high quality canon moving forward.
And they didn’t do that. The new canon is a mess that’s repeated many of the old EU’s mistakes in a fraction of the time. And the stubborn insistence on having every new book or comic be hard Canon, regardless of it’s quality, with no way to filter out or compartmentalize subpar stories, has been a huge mistake.
They should have anticipated that contradictions would emerge between stories, and that some new stories would end up being duds. And since the whole concept of soft canon and differing levels of Canon had been useful for dealing with that in the past, they shouldn’t have abandoned that. It was awfully presumptuous of the Story Group to assume that they could keep the new canon straight with everything on an equal level of canonicity. Even if they had tried their best, that was bound to fail. So we end up having mistakes, contradictions, and bad stories being etched into “hard Canon” status forever, with no clear way to remove them.