Whenever I watch the Star Wars movies, I usually include ROTS, mostly because it is not boring like TPM, and to a lesser extent AOTC, and also because of the nostalgia I have for it (apart from TFA, it is the only Star Wars film that I remember the hype for).
That seems so strange to me. Your generation does not remember the hype of the Phantom Menace, or its flop.
As a child I remember lumping TPM and the OT into the “old Star Wars” category, just because they were the ones released before I was born.
I was old enough that I remember the hype, but too young to register that it was a flop or to realize the masses considered it a flop. I was just like, Darth Maul’s lightsaber is so cool. Ah, to be young and clueless.