And I agree about Alderaan. I’ll never understand why Lucas created Naboo instead of just using Alderaan as one of the principal settings.
As much as I agree, I can’t help but feel that if he had done this, we’d be calling it the prime example of “universe shrinkage”
Well, we do say that overuse of Tatooine causes “universe shrinkage”, so I see your point. But I suspect that using Alderaan in the Prequels would be received mostly positively, mostly because we never actually saw Alderaan in the OT, and Ben Kenobi’s association with Alderaan as recounted in A New Hope sort of primed the audience to expect that Alderaan would have some key role in the Prequels.