I own an inflatable lightsaber from 1978 - admittedly regifted to me from someone who was gifted it AS an age-appropriate toy.
Star Wars was never geared towards adults, and ANY rational look at Star Wars as a whole is pretty clear evidence of that. You can't tell me that an inflatable lightsaber was meant for anything other than the 7-11 make demographic and expect anyone to believe it.
I'm a sophovore! :D
Intelligent food for intelligent people!
"But dolphins are intelligent!"
"Not this one. He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets."
I do see that a lot with the anti-Disney SW/Save the EU crowd. A willingness to immediately leap on any perceived flaw in the new movies while ignoring any such problems with anything Lucas did.
His Star Wars had plenty of flaws. Selectively ignoring them does not make them go away.
The people who legitimately feel this way are
toxic - the second worst kind of fanboys. Instead of loving something, warts and all, they pretend that the warts suddenly, MAGICALLY appeared and when you point to those warts in old photographs they ignore you and continue blathering on about how "It was better back in my day" - 'my day' meaning 'the moment I first discovered it and it could do no wrong.'
What vexes me most is that they failed the most basic test of empathy. Rey saying "The garbage will do!" or Sabine tagging the side of a TIE Fighter or Finn grabbing a lightsaber for a fight he can't win or Ezra telling his captors "My name is Jabba"
is that moment for someone else. By deciding it's awful before even watching it and THEN watching it for the signs of "Disneyfication" or "Horrible writing" or "They should have just used the EU storyline", they're closing themselves off from that moment
in their own lives.
I'll freely admit I have trouble with the people whose 'Star Wars moment' was the prequel trilogy, but I think all of them are happy with the newest Star Wars stuff.
Sometimes, newer is better. Sometimes, older is better. D&D5e? So much improved over the previous four editions. Shadowrun 5e? Frag that, give me 3 - at least I don't need a drekeating tackle box of dice to resolve my character walking into a Stuffer Shack.
But older isn't better just
because it's older, otherwise we'd still be using candles and riding horses. And newer isn't worst just
because it's newer, otherwise we'd still be playing crappy 3e Bards.