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>Which is why Disney's approach to the EU hasn't worked.
In theory, having a clean slate would have been fine but in practice they hired a bunch of people with political bones to pick, poor set up for the sequels and generally bad stories. That and their new continuity already has a bunch of holes and contradictions in it despite them setting up a team to keep it in check.
Legends was messy and had plenty of interconnected adventures in the whole post-RotJ storyline, so I don't think your analysis is entirely correct because to understand those stories you did have to read a bunch about them. And plenty of old EU is tonally weird, dumb or just the same issue I am talking about of taking x thing and expanding it out to death.
You have something people find interesting but has little depth and all their attempts to add depth just make it kind of messy and less interesting than the aesthetically pleasing but shallow original. And even when Disney attempted to return to that with The Mandalorian show, eventually that show just got bogged down in the same plot. A lot of people act like Disney ruined The Mandalorian by doing that stuff, but I honestly believe it was always the plan because The Mandalorian exists to set up spin offs and recontextualise the sequels. And the stuff people liked (basic things like Mandalorian doing a prison break or defending a village) was just a guise for the other shit.
