You know what I think would be hilarious:
If they put Filoni in charge precisely because after the 50th anniversary, they already know they’re going to reboot the whole thing. Especially if Kinberg’s trilogy comes out the gate and faceplants (which it will, Kinberg is… bad at movies.)
It’s increasingly becoming apparent to basically everyone who has been saying stuff like “it’s a rich, fertile ground for all sorts of stories…” that it’s actually not. All people seem to like and/or respond to, is stuff that ties into the Original Trilogy, and that’s probably because Star Wars isn’t a setting, not for the people who have, generation after generation, made it popular and lucrative a thousand times over. Star Wars isn’t a blank canvas for myriad different kinds of stories. Star Wars is Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader and Han Solo and Princess Leia and unless your Star War has some sort of link BACK to that, nobody really cares. Hell, even if you DO have some sort of link back to it, half the time people aren’t going to care.
I honestly think, after the Original Versions finally get a full-blown restoration and exhibition in 2027, it’s just going to become even more obvious that “Star Wars” means, to basically everyone who loves it, STAR WARS
It’s a limited story, with a limited scope, and the more people say it could and should spread out, the more we find out the people who hold that view are niche, comparatively. IT’s good for tie-in merch novels and tie-in merch games, sure. But the setting doesn’t really resonate with anyone without a tie back to the Skywalker saga.
It feels more and more likely to me that, eventually they’re going to give up on wrangling this continuity, like they gave up on wrangling it once already, once upon a sale. I think it’d be funny if the guy who only has the gig he’s got because he positioned himself within the company as George’s first/best protege (after chucking Tartakovsky out a window), is given the keys to the company solely to rewrite his old mentor, so that the Skywalker Saga maybe has more GOOD movies in it than bad ones for the first time. He’s the safe, standard choice. He’s Lucas-esque, they think. Is he really? No. But he’s close enough, and he’ll do for marketing purposes.