It is historical revision to say the prequels didn’t suck, but the Last Jedi did torpedo the new trilogy. Force Awakens was very basic as a retelling of the first movie, but had a lot of potential and promise that was shat away by Rian Johnson’s direction to ruin Luke, kill off major characters all around, waste enough time to create an entire second act worth of filler, and leaving IX with nothing to go off of but “I guess Kylo’s pissed that Rey won’t fuck him, and the whole movie will be about him trying to get his dick wet using the First Order”. The Rose thing was crap, but Revenge of the Jedi level crap that was still funny to laugh at. The rest of the movie was more disappointing than anything.
Sure it’s better than Episodes I and II, but it didn’t HAVE to be ass. I’m open minded, I could’ve taken bland over Gungans and Clones. All they had to do to be better was to keep playing it Disney safe, but they made the conscious effort to take a massive shit on the old movies too on their way out, so I can see why people would be more personally offended by the newer ones despite the prequels being objectively awful.