Yes the OT has faults. Lots of little gaffes.

The PT is entirely faulty because it lacks any connection to the original trilogy. It is an entirely different franchise as far as I am concerned. To me, it is like saying Dark Knight and Batman are the same. We were sold the PT as a continuation of the OT but the PT ended up feeling like a film adaptation of what was once known as the expanded universe.

Lucas could have taken the OT and reverse engineer the PT from it. What he did instead was he built the PT and then wired it into the OT universe.