Not only I'm pleased the EU will not be used in the new movies (they can keep some planets, even some secondary characters if they want to, I would not mind. After all they also bought the rights of the EU...) but I think it would have been a big middle to the fans to USE the EU. (like if they did not even bother to find something new to tell... ya know.)

And once again I find myself saying it in a thread: Lucas always said that if new movies would be done he kept the right to tell something completly different. I'm not a EU expert but I guess that is exactly what happened when the PT where made. There are surely some aspects of the the prequels in contradiction with the "post PT" EU. No? Why would Lucas should have been worried about the EU when he wrote the basic stories for the sequels when he obviously did not give a shit about it when he made the prequels (well, maybe he should have gave a shit about one or two things, but that another story..)

Plus: it would have been a real letdown, as an audience, to know more or less what to expect in the sequels.

Not taking care of the EU in order to make the new movies was the right thing to do. Of course this does not mean the new movies will be good or bad. Just that it was the most logical approach.