If I had been an adult when TPM came out, and had waited 16 years for it, I definitely would’ve been disappointed. Even as a kid, I could tell there was something “different” about it compared to the OT. It felt almost like a different universe.
Despite that, though, I don’t actually think that TPM is a bad movie. It isn’t bad, really. It’s weird. It has weird priorities, and it makes a lot of strange choices.
AotC is bad. RotS is solid.