I don’t find anything contradicting. He said during the lead up to Revenge of the Sith to 60 Minutes he wouldn’t take a five or six year old to it but an eight or nine year old could probably handle it. He was right. That’s how old I was at the time. Star Wars has always been for kids. He said it from the very beginning to Time Magazine in 1977. Adults truly like to project their own opinions on what a kid will find interesting or boring. They rarely let them form their own thoughts. I instead find they end up projecting onto them how they think something should be or how they saw it originally. It’s no different in how they show them Star Wars. They show them the way they think the movies should be instead of letting them view things as George intended them as I-VI and letting the kid have their own opinions before giving the kid or really anyone for that matter their own opinions. Kids in general just gloss over what they don’t understand. I know I did. When it comes to Anakin killing the younglings I didn’t see much difference in terms of tone to the ending of The Empire Strikes Back or even Return of the Jedi with Palpatine torturing Luke with Force Lightning. I probably even glossed over Anakin and the younglings. It’s one of the same for a kid. Star Wars has always been designed for kids and got darker as they matured. Return of the Jedi getting slightly lighter than The Empire Strikes Back too is that Empire went away a bit from George’s vision slightly but that’s due to Irvin Kershner’s approach of focusing on character through more scripted event like cinematography and other slight changes from George’s approach. Most storytellers who tell stories for kids make the fatal mistake of dumbing down their stories or what they want to say as they’re afraid they won’t understand. George didn’t do that. He did the exact opposite. If anything he matured his stories with them and gave them lots of rewatch value now that they’re adults because we can understand more and more nuances. Harry Potter is the only other example I can think of off hand that follows a similar formula. Cinema or any media can truly influence your psyche. George always thought of the moral responsibility he had when telling his stories. He’s spoken of it. George is carefully crafting his stories to reflect these sensibilities. I wonder sometimes for some fans is it as simple as they wanted the films to age with them? That wasn’t how George did things. He made things generational and purposely darkened things down in the Prequels initially to show the decline of society before the Dark Times and Empire.