Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

The prequels made everything stupid, but nothing as stupid as the jedi and the force. 

Instead of mystical samurai, they became super space cops and the force became super overpowered. 

There was no nuance in light side/dark side usage. Only the sith use the dark side. 

The force was always a neutral force in the OT and had both light and dark. The dark side wasn't evil and the light side wasn't good. Anyone could use either and both had their strengths and weaknesses. Too much use of the dark side can corrupt because it is where the might and power is. Having so much power can corrupt even the best intentioned, but that was never explored in the prequels.

This binary nature of the force in the prequels meant that Anakin turning to the dark side had to hinge on the most idiotic reason and everything fell apart. Would have made much more sense for him to lose his humanity slowly during the clone war and become drunk with power. He should have lost respect for the common people because they were not up to his standards and then he would have been easy for the Emperor to seduce to the dark side to use his power to "make things better/make the republic great again" like a good space fascist.

Lightsabres also became super overpowered and dumb.

If you like the prequels you have no brain.

The light saber being some kind of super weapon was weird. In the original it seemed like it was more a of a traditional thing "the weapon of a jedi" much like how dueling or fencing existed among the European aristocracy long after guns were invented.