On the one hand you say: How hard is it to screw up the Prequels? And yet George Lucas, the originator of Star Wars, managed to do just that!
And then you try to do what he should have done, and you find yourself tempted to or actually making the same mistakes he made. It gives you a little more sympathy for how rotten the final product is and how it got that way. I can't say that it makes me like them more, but I appreciate the challenge of doing it more.