Bingowings said:

I agree.

The PT love it or hate it is as much Star Wars as ROTJ.

It's much better to pretend they made sense and were well made than to pretend they don't exist.

I disagree with you there, Bingo. If I was a writer on the new movies, I think that it would be much better to pretend that they didn't exist. After all, we already had the original trilogy referencing the prequels, even if they hadn't been made yet, so I think the best course of action is to make a story that is much less reliant on events that happened over fifty years ago. Besides, everyone in the story that was alive during that time is now dead, so there's no reason to revisit the past.

Much better to create a story that focuses on the future.