My friend says that CGI Yoda and Jabba are far superior to the puppets from the OT. He also hates Chewbacca. I honestly don’t know why I even hang out with him at this point.
Your friend is a product of his/her generation. More accustomed to CGI than the real thing, albeit a bit muppetish at times. Kind of supports a point I tried to make in another thread that deepnding on what generation you grew up in, it can have an affect on how you interpret or view a movie/book.
I think Yoda and Jabba look in any case more realistic in the OT than in the PT. If what you say is true, I guess I have to be glad I was born in the early 90s 😄