I definitely think Lucasfilm should embrace a looser, softer approach to canon. Right now, the franchise is simultaneously really uptight about having a single, firm canon while also having plenty of contradictions within that canon. And I don’t think that casual viewers would really mind if they went for a looser approach.

I really don’t understand “canon purists.” They take the concept of canon more seriously than Lucasfilm itself does. And a lot of the Canon material is a remix of Legends source material, anyway.