As for the comment that TFA was “lazy”: My dad happens to be friends with the wife of the guy they brought on to create all of the star fields for the movie and I got an opportunity to talk to him at a party this past New Year’s Eve. He was telling me how he would spend hours every day trying to recreate the unique look of the star fields from the original Star Wars, digitally painting each star by hand and trying to make each star field for each shot unique. He said everybody working on the film put in that level of effort, pouring hours into getting every detail of the art direction exactly as it needed to be. It would have been so easy for him to roll out a new star field from photoshop or after effects every couple minutes but that’s not what they wanted on this movie.
If that level of commitment and respect for the work is considered lazy then I must be basically Jabba the Hutt in comparison.