Windexed said:

I still kind of wish GL was involved in some minor capacity (perhaps extremely minor). Kind of like how Arnold Palmer makes golf courses. He might tell them to put a tree here and a bunker there, but otherwise he just shows up for the opening ceremony, smiles, cuts the ribbon, takes a piss in the bushes, and leaves. The architects, engineers, and other skilled people do 99% of everything, which is how it should be.

I think that's too dangerous. All the problems with the prequel trilogy boiled down to Lucas forgetting how important other people's contributions were. And really, if George Lucas wanted to be more hands-off, he had decades of opportunity already. He walked away for a reason, and as grateful as I am for many of his cinematic contributions, I think Star Wars is better off now without his involvement.