Under Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm there has been more collaboration and a willingness to delegate seeing how she just elevated Dave. I can’t sweep under the rug all the directors who have been fired or quit over creative differences, and the total lack of most planned movies never getting made. But over all its not the dictatorship of the prequel. Its closer even to the OT where Lucas was willing to listen to other people’s ideas. And got input from them and even delegated to other directors.

Had Lucas made his sequel he should have followed the same process of the original, get other writers. Hire the best editors, take advice from friends. Direct only the first one.