I disagree about the Naboo fighters not being Star Wars. Almost everything in TPM rang true for me in terms of design, the only real exception being all of the Gungan technology. Hell, I still consider this to be one of the most authentically Star Wars-y designs in the entire franchise:

It’s not until you get to stuff like the Geonosian ripple-gun things and the Coruscant night life scenes and everything on Kamino that the design started to feel off for me. Really, though, my problem with the look of the prequels has more to do with the maximalist ethic than the design itself. The sheer amount of stuff that Lucas insisted on cramming into every frame undercuts the kind of elegance that the earlier films achieved so wonderfully.

I think Abrams did an admirable job of emulating the starkness that made the OT so visually striking (rathars notwithstanding). Even in a scene like the Starkiller Base battle where you’ve got lots and lots of fighters whizzing around, they’re almost always shot to appear very small against a big empty vista. He sort of starts to lose it when it gets a little busy towards the end with the trench run, but it doesn’t even approach the sensory overload of, say, the opening of ROTS.