Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:
He does care about storytelling. He's just a sloppy writer. The ideal Star Wars film can still be directed by him, but with somebody polishing the scripts, as it happened with ANH.
ANH was a group effort by pioneers. Everybody who touched that film had a major effect on it. ESB was the same, just a better director for the actors.
The prequels are your George Lucas movies.