hairy_hen said:

Clearly, alienating a percentage of longtime fans isn't something they're concerned about, given the way they annihilated all the post-RotJ stories that have ever been published in the past two decades. They cater to the mainstream who don't know or don't care about such things, and that's all.

The EU had to be nuked out of necessity because of whatever is in the outline that George wrote out for this new trilogy. Whether it be the offspring or the rumors about what Luke's been up to are true, it was too big to be retconned and thus the EU was demolished.

But Lucasfilm is still staffed by fans. They love the OT as much anyone and after all these years of having to be PT focused they're loving getting to re-explore the era they first fell in love with. It's evidenced in the interviews that come out. As well as things like the Kenner Troop Carrier appearing in Rebels.

Heck, the idea of an Imperial Inquisitor first originated in the WEG RPG source books. The books that provided the backbone of the EU itself.

The very people that had to destroy the EU are the ones that spent the last decade plus building it. So it was no small matter to them to have to do what they did. But you can be sure that over the course of the next few years they're going to be systematically reincorporating as much of the old EU back into the new canon as they can.

And you can bet that they'd love to see a proper release of the OOT too.