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Pfff, nah. What's holding the IP back is that the goddamn story is a mess.
The entire thing needs a reboot using the original 3 as an anchor. The prequels are meme garbage; I watched them in theaters (or more accurately, the first one because I gave up after that). I will die on this hill, don't bother arguing with me. The sequels got JJ Abramsed into lens flare oblivion because that goober can't tell a coherent story to save his life.
There was some good EU content but there was also the Yuuzhan Vong invasion so maybe we calm it down a bit. By all means keep the Rogue and Wraith squadron stuff, maybe Corran Horn's storyline. We need not speak of Kyp whatshisname. Mara Jade was amazing and should exist.
One story thread that needs resolution and examination is the nature of the light and dark sides of the forcee. As is they're basically Buddhism with the serial numbers filed off and respectfully, NAH. Let's explore the unifying force ideas; make the nature of someone's character about intentions and actions and not just emotions. We need to make peace with the idea that SW is a space fantasy, not a hard sci-fi show and just learn to be ok with that.
tldr; We need a single, competent vision behind the story and we need to make some potentially polarizing decisions instead of trying to please everyone and ending up pleasing nobody.