I find the notion that Lucas harbors some malicious hatred towards us, and that everything including GOUT has been part of his grand scheme to present his 'true vision' to be pretty absurd.

I believe that about as much as I believe that Luke and Leia being siblings was some kind of carefully planned plot element.

Lucas is simply hopelessly out of touch, probably blinded mostly by his success and inflated sense of ego. Besides, everything we know about Lucas tells us that he doesn't actually plan that far ahead. He just does things and then pretends he planned to do them the whole time.