
I feel if Disney didn’t give up on the sequels, they would be received better today. Like the prequels weren’t received well when they came out by older fans, but LucasFilm kept pushing them with toys, commercials, cartoons, books, etc. (Prequels content is still pushed to this day!) and thus new Star Wars fans ended up growing up with the prequels and loving them. The Sequels on the other hand, Disney refuses to promote them.
Like right now you can go to any big grocery store’s toy section and find Star Wars toys relating to the prequels, original trilogy, or Mandalorian, but nothing sequels based. The TV Shows on Disney + are either prequels or original trilogy inspired/based, but none are sequels based. (There was the Resistance cartoon which was sequels based back in like 2018, but that didn’t really go anywhere unfortunately.)