I don’t think that the Prequels are bad movies, I genuinely like them. But I totally agree with you on this. Actually - and I say it as a Prequel fan myself - I hate when people say that the Prequels are good exclusively because the Sequels are bad. It shows that you don’t really appreciate the movies, it just means that you are “forgiving” them because you think there are other movies that suck harder than them. Saying that the Prequels are good because the Sequels are bad is like saying: “Oh yeah, they suck, but they suck less than the Sequels.”
I agree. Also this might be a controversial opinion, but I think the people who are saying the prequels are good now because the sequels are so bad never really disliked the prequels in the first place. They probably just hated it because everyone else was so they jumped on the bandwagon. And now they’re doing the same thing with the sequels just because now they’re the cool thing to hate on in the Star Wars fandom, and when we get the next big Star Wars trilogy they’ll do the exact same thing, jump on with the people who hate the new movies and then start talking about how the sequels are actually good and it’s this new one that’s actually awful. Note I’m not saying everyone who hated the prequel trilogy and now hate the sequel trilogy are like this, sometimes a movie can come out that you dislike so much that other movies you used to hate don’t seem so bad anymore, but I think a lot of people are just jumping on the hate bandwagon.