You know
part of why all entertainment made in the west sucks now? it's cause our creative "talents" have removed all magic and wonder from everything. This is widespread in everything, you can't just have magical cool stuff anymore that isn't explained, and everything has to be grounded in realism. Even down to character designs, that are ruined with this extreme realism mindset.
I remember when George Lucas actually ruined Star Wars for me, it wasn't when Yoda picked up a light saber and started doing acrobatics. It was when he needlessly explained this mysterious thing called the force. You thought Jedi had to train to control and become one with magic energies, and it was ackchyually a bacterial infection and none of the Jedi were special at all and it was all just completely random bro.
muh midichlorians
The first 3 films took themselves seriously, they have a mystery and wonder about them. The Jedi were viewed as being masters, who trained to control this magical energy nobody really understood but had incredibly respect for.
The prequels crapped over everything and were just comical popcorn flicks, that took nothing seriously.
Everything after that is clown ***made by imbeciles some exec took pity on for virtue single points.