Well first off, I don’t care about anything outside of the movies, but that’s a personal choice. With that said, what exactly are you using as your personal canon (I hate the term “headcanon” and refuse to use it)? Is this based on something tangible, or just a fan fiction story in your head? Did someone create a good Anakin character?
Really, just TCW and the RotS novelization did wonders for me. I think that the book format is much better for telling Anakin’s story, and TCW made him a much more likable character.
Well sure but that doesn’t make Anakin in the movies a magically good, compelling character. If we’re just talking movies, Anakin is not even in remotely the same league of any of the TFA characters. He’s in a league of his own, swimming in a trash compactor pool of wildly inconsistent, inexplicable, and downright annoying shit.