It being a “rehash of ANH” is true and valid to a certain degree. But when that’s the thing people constantly talk about without bringing anything new to the conversation it does get kind of annoying.

I feel the same about some prequel things. It’s like, we get it, Jar Jar is annoying, but that doesn’t need to be your default argument when talking about the The Phantom Menace. Bring something new to the conversation.

TFA borrowed a lot from Star Wars, but I mean it also borrowed a lot from Empire and Jedi, yet nobody seems to talk about that. It was very much a “greatest hits of the OT”. Some people like that, some people don’t. I’m kind of indifferent to it. I feel like they did a very good job of redoing alot of the same story beats but with new characters and in a fresh enough way that it didn’t FEEL like a rehash to me, even though on paper it very much is a retelling of the same kind of story.