Lord Haseo said:

I came to the conclusion that seeing as how bad the prequels were no one who's in charge of Star Wars would let such a thing happen again.

I reached the same conclusion, which is why my safe money is still squarely on "meh", 5/10, fairly disposable entertainment, far and away the best thing that's happened in the Star Wars universe in over a generation, and something I may still very well opt to skip entirely.

Making money is a given, even ROTS made money. Head and shoulders above the prequels is an incredibly low hurdle, Alien vs. Predator managed to clear that one and it blew. Disney bought a property that they could completely mishandle, still make money from it and improve the long-term reputation of the franchise. A deal like that doesn't come along very often.

When you can't lose, you don't have to take the sort of risks that you need to take in order to make something great.