Unrelated: If we are talking about the novelizations as books without respect to anything else, just them in isolation, I’d say ROTS was far better than TFA.
I like the broad story, but the whole PT was brought about with compounding bad decisions.
Honestly, ROTS is my favorite of all the adaptations (though I haven’t read the TFA one yet). In fact, ROTS the novel is my favorite SW book in general.
As Frink says though we are talking about the movies. The beauty of the original Star Wars was that it was a story most effectively told through cinema. TFA fits that bill as well.