TPM is clearly the best of the prequels for me. The story/acting/characterization still suck, but there’re more physical sets/locations to balance out the CGI, Anakin’s not a hateful asshole, and there’s less violation of the OT mythos.
This. TPM had some irritating characters and a lousy script, but apart from the midichlorian exchange (which would be easy enough to retcon away), it doesn’t do any real damage to anything that already existed. The other two really mess up a lot of stuff that was previously established in a way TPM doesn’t.