One of the worst things about the prequels is that every Joe out there has a lightsaber.
You mean every Jedi Joe? Why wouldn’t they all have lightsabers? They’re Jedi!
What I mean to say is there are just so many g-dd-mn lightsabers because there are so many g-dd-mn Jedi. I know it’s a big galaxy, but force-sensitivity still seems to be too wide-spread in the PT. In the OT, it’s mystical. There are five force users in the entire galaxy: Ben, Yoda, Luke, Vader, and the Emperor. In the PT, you have 100 Jedi killing robots and you’re like A) is being a Jedi really that hard? and B) Are they really held in that high esteem, if they’re being contracted to kill robots? It just dilutes the notion of Jedi.
I’m not a PT apologist by any means but some of your argument is flawed. You’re complaining about 100 Jedi in a galaxy of trillions of people, that still makes them a pretty rare class/type of person, wouldn’t you think? And regarding the Jedi being respected, need I remind you who got the Jedi to fight? Palpatine. Someone who obviously hates the Jedi and is using his paper tigers to make the Jedi obsolete and eventually extinct. Maybe it’s not as clear as it should be, but I can see it.