I feel like RLM did a good job of pointing out some issues that have bothered me as well. On one hand it's like people want something new and fresh, but on the other hand certain things HAVE to be in every Star Wars movie. And in the case of Rogue One you can make a point that Tarkin and Leia had to be there and had to be CGI because story reasons, even though I feel like you should have cut down Tarkin considerably, maybe just see his reflection and have Krennic report to him via hologram or something, and Leia did not need to be shown at all. A simple line like "you have to get this to her" at the end when they had the plans would have been enough. With the Episodes, we're moving ahead and it sort of makes sense to have Luke, Leia (not for so much anymore), C3PO, R2D2, Chewbacca and all these faces, until their characters die.
But then when they are going outside the box with the anthology movies, we're getting a Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford. This new kid might be a good fit, but is this something we really needed? To quote Jay from RLM: "These are things I know". You make a movie about a young Han Solo with a new actor, you get to shove in Chewie, Lando, the falcon, and you get to address some of those lines in the OT about what Han Solo did before A New Hope. Then there's talks about a Boba Fett movie, one of the most useless characters in the OT, but his look is iconic and a lot of people think he's sort of cool because of the design and the fact that we learn nothing, there's talks about a young Yoda movie, a movie about what Obi-Wan did between RotS and ANH (which I would be interested in, despite it being fan service). The movies might turn out solid but it's still slightly disappointing to me that they can't come up with new ideas for moving forward that doesn't involve going backwards to revisit <character we know and love that will sell toys>. Maybe 10 years down the line when they are done milking the legacy of the old movies, we might get something fresh like an Old Republic movie, because that could be neat. Seriously, just make a set of Star Wars movies set either 1000 years before the OT or 1000 years after. Something that stands on its own without having to include death stars or tie fighters.