It’s still a no win situation in light of TFA. If the new film is good, Jedi loses its bronze medal; if it’s bad, then it will be the forerunner of five bad Star Wars films. My Star Wars fandom has now been reduced to whether or not Jedi is defensible as a film. Ask any film critic, it is an objective failure, and may be inferior to Episode III for fuck’s sake! It may be seen only as a guilty pleasure at best, but it will never be Empire, or any work of art. Star Wars and Empire have fans; Jedi only has defenders. And when a film has defenders and not fans, that is never a good sign.
I think you’re perhaps overly pessimistic; While I don;t think ROTJ is a great film, I still love it for the characters that came before and the highs and lows it hits so well (particularly in the Luke/Vader/Emperor confrontation).
It still beats all of the prequels combined in my books, any day of the week. Beat them to death, if it was able.