A lot of fans hate the old EU, and go out of their way to trash it as much as possible and to rub in that “It was never canon.” And it makes me wonder, why do they care so much?

They’ve gotten what they wanted. The EU was ended and declared as definitely non-canon. But they seem to hate the fact that a lot of people prefer it over the current canon. That’s unacceptable to them, for some reason.

And a lot of them use the argument that, since George didn’t recognize it as part of his own canon, it should be disregarded in discussions. But going by that logic, everything George didn’t work on should be disregarded.