Star Wars died with the release of the Ewoks. Since then, there has been a competition of what level of vile suck the world will tolerate before they finally walk away. The drek increases exponentionally with each movie, and few seem to notice
I noticed just like you. The Ewok crap, I was done with that puppet show crap. The re imagined battlestar galactica more my thing.
My theory is different. Star Wars started its spiral when Vader was revealed to be Luke’s dad, And the more family drama it embraces, the worse it becomes. The epic sweep of a galaxy in rebellion is just a painted backdrop to “What happened to my daddy?” and “Where’s my mommy?” storylines.
Ewoks and porgs are just the noodles and mustard on a soup sandwich! ;-D :-D