Quote from Reddit:

"Probably the thing that frustrates me the most about the sequels is that their version of Star Wars after Endor has good themes at play- a vision of the galaxy that grew so tired of war that they made peace with evil, enabled it and accepted it and in doing so, failed the galaxy, failed their own ideals, and eventually brought about their own downfall through that fatal sin of complacency.

That is a good, modern, cynical take of what happens after Return of the Jedi, a galaxy where the battle against evil is just as much a battle against the complacency and corruption of the victors as it is a violent and ideological confrontation with what remains of the previous villains. And the movies do a truely remarkably awful job of selling or exploring that conflict."

I really like this interpretation, is there any way to emphasize this theme throughout the trilogy? I think this would help in TFA especially, my biggest problem with the sequels was always the lack of explanation behind the New Republic/Resistance/FO relationship.