Vladius said:
but in almost every way they had the same praises and criticisms people have always had about the prequels before the 2010s pseudo-revival

So they thought that the Prequels are the worst thing that ever happened to Star Wars and thought that they should be destroyed and remade? Because that’s what “people” thought before the “pseudo-revival”.

Anyway, every time I introduced a friend to Star Wars, I always made him/her watch the movies in chronological order, and every time it turned out that they actually liked the Prequels. For some reason, when people watch the Prequels first, they tend to like them more than if they watch them after the OT.