The EU passed into "atrocious quality" a long time ago. Over the last 10 years or it seems like it's been one bad storyline after another, and with all the popular characters they've killed off there's really not much left to do. Slowly but surely the EU is imploding from too much baggage and not enough support pillars, and so at this point an EU reboot seems like a pretty sure thing to me.

And I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I don't really understand how anyone could say that they find the Darth Caedus storyline preferable to the prequels. Or the Second Galactic Civil War. Or any of the stupid, half-assed rehashes of the movies that we've been subjected to for the last 10 years (and the 90's had their share of stinker books, too).