It also ignores the fact that Disney threw out all of Lucas’s ideas for the sequel trilogy without a care and he was so unhappy with the results that he whined about selling Star Wars to “white slavers.”
I used to think Lucas was a comedian and did the whole stubborn bit because it was hilarious “They’re my movies and I can do what I want with them.” “Nobody likes me.” Wearing the plaid shirt. Would be hysterical if that actually were the case. Unfortunately evidence is mounting that he is serious and the SEs and the prequels were not deliberately bad.