Tyrphanax said:
One of the biggest problems with the EU prior to ROTJ was that the New Republic was around for like ten minutes and it was already in another batch of huge wars and beginning to crumble and it devalued the conclusion of the OT. Give us some peace, make it seem like the Rebellion was a success; nothing interesting happens and everything is awesome for 20-30 years, then, suddenly, oh crap! Time to defend the Republic!
That just makes sense to me.
I do like the imperial remnant stuff though, some sort of acknowledgement of the magically vanishing imperial fleet from ROTJ would be nice.