>>96293243
I think it's because Lucas at his height didn't wield such an iron grasp on that IP outside of the movies at the time. I'd say the best time for Star wars media that wasn't the movies was during/after the prequels. We were getting excellent videogames and alright novels and comics and the d20 RPG was decent and had good source books for eras other than OT and PT. Post Disney, the Vidya is bad, the movies are bad, the shows are mostly bad, the novels are bad and all focus on a narrow band of time or their new dogshit high republic era. They've really salted the earth.