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Prequel nostalgia exists because kids at the time liked them, and are now able to push back against existing criticism from older fans. There won’t be sequel nostalgia, because kids today simply don’t give a shit about Star Wars, so they’re not going grow up and decide to push back against sequel criticism.
Yeah, TFA is bland corporate cookie cutter crap, but it’s at least not deliberately hostile to people who actually liked Star Wars going in. But on the other hand, the fact that it was greenlit as a mainline Star Wars movie was rather indicative that either Disney didn’t actually care to properly vet what they were putting out, or that I was very definitely not part of the target audience they wanted. So I haven’t watched or read anything else since.