I'll the give the prequels credit for one thing and one thing alone...they are SO BAD that they actually make Return of the Jedi a VASTLY superior film in comparison. Jedi was not, and is not perfect. But, the one thing it isn't is the shameful, shit stinkin' mess that the PT turned out to be.
Fifty or one hundred years from now, when people talk about Star Wars, they'll be talking about the ORIGINAL Star Wars films. Hell, it's like that now. Except as a punchline, when do you even hear the prequels mentioned? Nobody cares, and LOTS fewer people saw them than saw the original trilogy. Think about that. It made whatever dollars it made, but movie tickets are what...about three or four times the price that they were in 1977. That adds up to millions less people who even bothered with the prequels.