George made Midichlorians and turned the force into something in which you needed to be born gifted, rather than something you could aspire to.

He turned Boba Fett into just another clone and Darth Vader into an angsty teen.

He created a world where everyone forgot about the Jedi in 16 years to the point where Han thinks of it as a hokey religion when as a kid he would have seen the propaganda of the Republic’s main generals being Jedi and then them “betraying” the Republic during order 66.

The sequels might not be good, but let’s not pretend the prequels were better just because you grew up with them.