Yes, and they’re a way to artificially make Anakin seem special.
how does make him worse than he already is? it doesn’t seem like that a big deal to me.
It doesn’t so much make the character worse as make the story worse. It’s a cheap device McGuffin to propel him into the story that has no basis or pay off (in the films). Put a bad character together with a lazy story device, rather than writing even an excuse of a character motivation for them, doubly sucks for the film over all.