No one is saying that.
I’ve seen it stated many times, though I wasn’t accusing anyone specifically.
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.
In my opinion, they did. It isn’t perfect, but the continuity is miles better than the old EU. The EU has some great stories, but in my opinion it was a bigger mess.
So we end up having mistakes, contradictions, and bad stories being etched into “hard Canon” status forever, with no clear way to remove them.
I’m just saying, if the old EU already wasn’t considered canon by George and many others, so I don’t get the outrage some had over Disney moving it all to “Legends” status.
Canon isn’t some holy designation. I don’t think anyone is expected to treat the new novels and comics like they’re the sacred Jedi texts. It’s just a way to more easily move forward with new stories. I don’t think they’re writing them in stone forever and always.
Just because it isn’t perfect, doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. In the future, any of these new stories could also be moved over to Legends. I glad they made room for new stories to be told, and it’s not like they erased the old ones from history. They’ve even reissued many of them.
I didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought it was worth nothing their handling of the EU is one of the complaints I see leveled often against Disney, and it’s interesting to see so many quotes from George on how he always considered it less than canon anyway.