avoidz said:
Meaning, I think, that there's no one to challenge Lucas in his ideas, like Gary Kurtz did. So we end up with Jar Jar Binks. So you have a LFL populated by sycophants instead of a collaborative effort to create movie art.
On the other side of the coin, Lucas attitude and conviction (being free to do what he wants and how he wants) managed to improve some of his own companies like ILM (and therefore, cinema as we see today) and the move to digital cinema.
And who is to say nobody challenged Lucas ideas even in the PT? Maybe not at the scale of Gary Kurtz, but I believe he was open to suggestions. (As of today, I know he is with The Clone Wars animated series, as shown in many interviews and videos. And that's LFL nowadays.)