Bingowings said:

I don't have a problem with a story that isn't necessary in an OT context.

If anything the PT would have been stronger if it had avoided ticking too many OT boxes (like having Anakin the main focus).

The problem was the dearth of story altogether and the frequent absence of logic in the little story that is there.

Even the most insubstantial cipher of a character can function well in a well defined story which makes narrative sense.

The PT is as abstract as cinema can get, it's all shapes and colours without people or a flow of events but unlike something like a Lynch film it's all by accident not by design.

I know what you mean. I was just struck recently about how well each scene in Star Wars 77 leads to the next one. The script is very logical and, really, really, tight. Each scene is just as long as it needs to be. Compare the long, drawn out space battle of ROTS to see what not to do.