If Ed Wood had been a multi-millionaire with access to early 21st century VFX, he would’ve made movies of exactly the same quality.
That’s part of the charm of the prequels for me, honestly. The fact that they’re so unapologetically George’s movies, with all the good and bad that that entails. It’s preferable to movies that feel like they were made by a board room.
I wish more prequel fans thought this way, really. I can understand loving the prequels, warts and all. What I can’t fathom is the mentality that insists there are no warts.
Or the off screen explanations or excuses approaching Olympic level gymnastics trying to reason why there are no warts.
Why not accept just the warts, most films have them if you look hard enough. Fans of the OT and ST, to me, appear to accept the warts in Star Wars more than fans of the PT. I am not sure why it is.