generalfrevious said:

Alright, he may have not have been a trickster the whole time, but I still think he didn't care about the continuity of the six films at all, and he has contempt for SW being successful from the beginning. Does that opinion make sense?

No it still doesn't. He worked very hard to get SW made and to get buy-in from so many people. It was his baby, and he was making other good movies at the time too. I think it's a lot simpler and more believable that as he got older, all the success and accolades went to his head. He isn't the first artist to have lost his edge, and he also isn't the first artist to get all full of himself.

You're trying to make up a bunch of backstory and turning it into some sort of saga, when really he's just become a rich old miserly curmudgeon.