canon is dead, from a certain point of view
fanon is the only way to make sense of the star wars universe now
it has become so big and unwieldy that you must simply take what you are given and accept or reject bits and pieces of it to make it work for you. even if you only stick to so called g-level canon (the highest level i believe) it is full of contradictions.
it is as though the star wars story has been edited together from the evidence of many different sources that don't all agree with each other
ladies and gentleman of the jury, you must decide for yourself the truth, based on the evidence presented before you
certain (usually very small) aspects of ady's edits fly in the face of g-level canon - and that's ok, in fact to most of us here it's better than ok. it's great.
these are fan edits - ady decides what's in his fanon, the fact that so far he's sticking pretty close to g-level is his choice, and for the OT that has been a good choice for the vast majority of us. it certainly will be interesting to see where the PT goes. personally i hope quite a bit goes off canon
anyway the point is that george's opinion of what is canon is no longer all that relevant
your own opinion - your own fanon is all that should really matter
our destiny lays on a different path than george's (slightly)