It's the same thing.

Most of the people who recognise Boba Fett know less about him than they do Jar-Jar.

Character design and brand recognition sadly isn't the same thing as character and story.

You could probably hold up a picture of Nat Portman in her pretzel hairdo and people would twig she was from Star Wars long before they twigged it was Nat Portman or what the hell her character was like.

Similarly Leia is the hairy headphones and the metal bra (at the same time thanks to Friends, a show I have only seen one episode of and it wasn't that one), not the generally more nuanced character of the better made OT.

That's why it's important to make these stories rather than just associated action movies.

While we may not like the PT anywhere near as much some these films have a continuity to them which goes beyond brand recognition.

Luke and Leia will now be the older generation to a new group of characters but they had a older generation who were once the same age as the new group of characters.

I don't want to just look at the wobbly warty romantic lead and think, she's the Star Wars girl who is wobbly and has warts.

I want her to have a character and a story that connects to the existing story, maybe even improving how I see what's gone before.

Certainly not ruining it like the PT did or pretending to ignore it the past like Prometheus did.