The prequels sucked. There’s no way to possibly argue they are good or well-made, even if you don’t think they sucked.
The things I like about the prequels are the basic plot points. Palpatine working two sides of a war to his advantage is a bit sophisticated for that sort of film.
The characters were badly defined, the scripts were lousy, the performances and direction clunky and wooden.
With this new film everything is in reverse. The acting is great, the characters are interesting and we’ll directed but what they are doing is so familiar it’s not engaging. For all it’s flaws, and there are many, ROTS felt more like Star Wars to me. All they had to do was write an original plot or mix it up a bit more and TFA would have been perfect. As it stands I’m surprised how ambivalent I feel towards it.