Even Shadows of the Empire has been erased ? It was such a huge thing in the 90’s (book, comics, soundtrack album, video games, action figures, etc.)…
Yeah, I don’t get it either. It makes no references to any post ROTJ Legends stories (e.g Thrawn, Ben Skywalker, etc.), nor has it any connection to any pre-existing EU stories, so it was pretty much made to be it’s own unique stand-alone story. Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm could save a lot of time and money filling in the ANH-ESB gap by simply re-canonizing or re-telling Shadows of the Empire. It would also calm down the whole “bring back the EU” crowd somewhat, and it wouldn’t in any way contradict the new movies. Then again I haven’t read any of the new books or comics, so maybe it does contradict something? Has any of the new EU material taken place in his time-period?
It’s actually really easy to get.
The EU was rebooted in 2014. Anything that came before was declared noncanon, anything after, canon. There was no picking and choosing. The one holdover was TCW which was grandfathered in because they had new episodes out that year.
The idea was a clean slate, not just for new movies, but also for new comics and books and etc. (with the perhaps silly hope that things will actually be consistent from now on).
So while I don’t think anything has been set in that time period yet, there definitely will be things that mine that span. So canonizing SOTE would not be saving them any money, it’d be costing them the potential money they could make with replacement stories.