I can partially understand why he sold to Disney at the time, given their past record of making many great films in both animated and live action. However, I think he made the mother of all mistakes in picking Kathleen Kennedy as his successor. What she did to the sequels (“The Last Jedi” in particular) is 100% inexcusable, and the clips I’ve seen online from “The Rise of Skywalker” weren’t much better. Bringing back Palpatine and making Rey his granddaughter was another idiotic decision. I’d have much preferred that she was Luke’s daughter, possibly canonizing the film existence of Mara Jade (even though Lucas did not like that character).