For me it was a very delayed reaction.
May of 2006, finding out that the unaltered Star Wars dvd's would be sourced from the 1993 laserdisc and not, at the very least, a fresh transfer from an IP or something so that it could at least be presented in modern dvd quality, absolutely infuriated me. I realized at that moment just how badly the franchise had been handled for almost an entire decade. For some reason it just didn't catch up to me until then.
I realized it would have been much better had the SE's simply never happened and GL handed off the prequels to other writers and directors, just as he'd done with Empire and, to a certain extent, Jedi. Instead, he went the exact opposite route, directing the prequels himself and altering the originals to fit with his "vision."