I agree...
Though I have a feeling that when Abrams is through with SW, it's gonna make what Lucas was doing on 1-3 look GOOD...
I dunno... maybe I'll get flamed for this, but actually I didn't think SW1-3 was THAT bad... kinda liked them actually, though of course if you wanted to make a better set of movies, you'd have jettisoned Jar Jar out the nearest airlock first off, and then done a bit better with the writing... and avoid the whole "Anakin as a kid" thing... IOW, set the whole thing during the Clone Wars with Anakin as a young adult...
Lucas COULD have done better, but with the "middle three" stories already told, there was a "canon" there that had to be meshed in with whatever he did in the "first three" movies-- the quandary of doing a "prequel"... I think Lucas COULD have done a better job of it though... too many things DIDN"T mesh with what the original movies revealed... but it's ALWAYS harder to write a story where you've got to end up with everybody and everything in position for what the original movies had already exposed, than if you're writing an "open ended" story...
As for "reboots", well, the ONLY reboot that I've seen that I've actually deemed superior to what was going on before was the James Bond films... Things REALLY had gone to pot writing-wise and premise-wise during the Brosnan films, which is sad, because he was one of the best Bonds since Sean Connery...
As for the Trek reboot-- Meh... it's B-grade comic book stuff... like the "new" BSG (Melrose Place in space) and 99% of the classic movie remakes-- can't hold a candle to the original... just like "NEW COKE", it leaves a bad taste in my mouth...
Later! OL JR
