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>one of the many problems with the prequels was George Lucas trying to add nuance with the jedi being corrupt.
This isn't a problem in it of itself, at least not what was actually happening, so much as it not being entirely appropriate for the general mentality with which people approach Star Wars and also Lucas was not a good enough writer/director to get it squared.
The basic idea of the Jedi serving the Republic and thus being married to an aging, corrupt bureaucracy and having to deal with that is sound. Almost nothing we actually see of the Jedi themselves points to much corruption or even decadence within their organization other than the problems of being aligned with an imperfect galactic government. The problem is the schemes of the Sith have resulted in a no win situation: either they fight to support the Republic, largely the lesser of two evils, and tie themselves to it live or die. Or they peace out and let galactic civilization collapse under the idea of "we don't want to be morally responsible for anything." So they choose to stay and fight and get doomed anyway.
It's the little things that people pick at. The sort of stuff people don't usually make a fuss about unless they're already mad. The whole "brainwashing religious cult" nonsense people like to harp on against all sense. And there's the backlash to the Jedi not being perfect that results in people further getting all weird and going "well if the Jedi aren't perfect they're basically evil and I want to be mad about this and project my weird angsty into angry reinterpretations of canon to vent."
