Will I be pissed if VIII and IX follow suit and hew this close to the OT? Of course, I don’t think they can or should get away with this kind of thing more than once. But as far as the series up to TFA is concerned, I needed a course correction before a Great Leap Forward, and I’m happy to have got one.
That’s why I said I’ll be more forgiving of TFA if Disney/Lucasfilm can prove this won’t be an ongoing trend.