I'd say there are issues with every single Star Wars film, some more than others.
You have to understand how it all came about.
The short version is that while hugely successful, between what George Lucas had in mind, managed to cobble together and presented to the people at Fox and the final product hastily reedited by Marcia Lucas and all the rewrites by Kasdan and the Kurtzes, Star Wars when it finally came out was a huge success and a movie Lucas had pretty much given up on. He saw it as the last movie he'd ever made in Hollywood and he never really got over it.
He gave up directing to Irwin Kirshner who humiliated him by being a vastly better director and superb with actors.
Most of his earlier collaborators left him by the time of Jedi and while it was a huge success, Lucas could never shake off the feeling he never had any control over these films, that it was really is rough ideas made into great films by highly talented people.
What makes things worse is that everybody called Lucas a genius for films he didn't consider as his own work to begin with.
Lucas is Hollywood's biggest case of impostor syndrome.
So he takes total control for the prequels and you quickly realize that Lucas is a superb businessman with a very rich imagination and the ability to convey it to others and give it form, but he's a very poor storyteller.
He only made the prequels because he wanted to exorcise his demons, and while successful I doubt he ever felt truly happy about the results. I'm not criticizing Lucas, but I fear that between his ambition and making a finished film there is a lot of friction and limitations to be overcome.
Hither came Disney who did what is standard practice in Hollywood when a property comes up for another cycle, it gets remade. Not because Disney wanted to erase Lucas, it's just that they can't conceive of anything better to begin with.
I also believe there is a key problem with Lucasfilm. It's a company designed to orbit one person and one person alone. George Lucas. Kathleen Kennedy is a highly successful producer, but she isn't George Lucas. Lucasfilm needs its own Kevin Lucas or George Feige to have at least some kind of view from the top and not just a policy of throwing things at the wall and see what sticks.
Honestly I never really disliked any Star Wars film. There were perhaps disappointing moments and bits that made me cringe.
The OT and Prequels are disjointed because Lucas had a huge problem and perfers to think of his films as how he came to see that rather than what was on screen, hence the huge disconnect between Ben Kenobi fondly remembering his best friend in a well acted piece by Alec Guinness and a scene meant to be the dramatic highlight where he cuts off his limbs and then leaves him to burn alive without even the decency to give him a merciful death.
There are more issues like the superb plan to use the son of the frustrated teenager with fascistoid ideas by leaving said teenage son to get increasingly frustrated on a desert planet and once the great plan to train him as the weapon against the Emperor is set in motion the muppet called Yoda play it coyly and refuses to train him … Yeah the Jedi master was probably a bit senile by then, but really ??? Is that the best plan you got ?
And yet I'm more than happy to forgive these mistakes, because I feel a strong sympathy with George Lucas and I always had the feeling that despite all the pain it caused him. It remained a labour of love, an obsession that he had to share with the world.
Lucas made up things as he went along and it either works so well it hits it out of the ballpark "No, I am your father." but he also loses it when he decides ad-hoc the other must be Leia … Cf the kiss in the previous film for a bit of an "eeew" movement.
Phantom Menace, everyone loves to hate that film, they love to hate JarJar. I never found him that hateful, rather a bit puzzling like one rewrite or two short of a good iteration. Phantom Menace suffers from poor decisions, but if you skip Jake Lloyd's poor acting skills (he was a normal kid, not those preternaturally adult 6-year olds who feel more like midgets in kid's suits than real children)
Attack of the Clones : Good action flick, perhaps one that hearkens more to the original film than anything else in terms of big space adventure.
Revenge of the Sith : Take a very dark and dramatic turn and while not the virtuoso Empire level, it's a decent flick.
Especially if you remember that Star Wars was never meant to be this amazing existential work, but rather a homage to the good old Buck Rogers serials.
Remember those were just as corny and hammy as anything in Star Wars so they got that bit right.
Force Awakens has one flaw, it sets up a mystery and then runs away hoping we will all fall in awe at the sight of mystery.
The Last Jedi compounds this mistake by essentially wasting about 2/3rds of a film to defuse the previously established mystery.
Rise of Skywalker then has to spend most of its running time trying to catch up with what should have been in the second film and then tell its own story in less than an hour.
In retrospect the OT is fairly solid even when it comes to Ewoks who should have been Wookies dammit !!!
The Prequels while not perfect represent Lucas trying his best, but he had the courage to do it and pull through. He never started the third trilogy because deep down he knew the story was so well bookended, a third trilogy would only add more sight and sound, but little else.
And I think that's what the people at Lucasfilm didn't quite grasp. They may have known it was a trap, but there was this legend that Star Wars was always going to be nine films. (note, Lucas only ever talked about nine films between ESB and ROTJ for a few months and IIRC about three interviews and mentioned it to Mark Hamill. Lucas never mentions them again, but since the prophet made a promise …)
Disney tried to scratch that itch and both underestimated and overestimated the property they had just bought for an obscene amount of money.
There's only so much ground you can cover in a world that is little more than space wizards with laser swords.
That's what makes Star Wars Star Wars. It's the story of the Campbellian hero with a number of specific Sci-Fi tropes.
The only way out is to paint whatever you gonna sell with something that looks like Star Wars. Trying to retell the same story of Jedi and Sith is boring. The only way forward for Disney is by making certain themed films made to look like a Star Wars film like Rogue one, which is the Dirty Dozen war movie or the Mandalorian which is Lone Wolf and Cub in Star Wars.
We'll have to step away from the Skywalker family if we want it to remain fresh or we'll end up with Star Trek around the time of Voyager torn between trying to innovate with series like Deep Space Nine and fans demanding they get a whole new Next Generation, hence Voyager making a big 180° because the fans couldn't accept Star Trek evolving beyond TNG.
If fans start to demand everything to be a perpetual incestuous cycle of self reference, we got about two movies to go and one more dip in a now overburdened storyline is only going to make it worse.
What about all that SJW stuff you ask ?
If you have to ask or bring it up, you probably didn't see all the little girls who dress up as Rey …
I'm not gonna waste a lot of time discussing this but I will make two points.
The first is that diversity is here to stay. Back in 1977 when Mabel and Otis went to the cinema they were the mainstream audience. Westerns and Musicals were on the way out, but still present in the mainstream. Star Wars is when pop culture took over and teenagers became the focal point.
Back in 1980 the girlfriend was bored to death when her beau took her to see Empire.
For forty years pop culture has given now late middle-age men the idea they were a perpetual nerdy Peter Pan, they didn't have to grow up because cinema reassuringly told them they were the pinnacle of cinematic consumption and blockbuster success.
But you can't have 40 of pop culture and not expect it to percolate into the other groups, ie the girlfriend material and all those people who are not white male teenagers pushing fifty.
Back in 1977 I was Luke Skywalker, I was Kirk, I was Frodo. I wanted to see a bit of myself in the stories and I got a floodgate of stories where the main character was always somebody I could identify with.
Why should I deny anyone else who identifies with Rey, T'Challa, Django, Black Widow, the current Doctor, Black Lightning, or Wonder Woman ?
Diversity is here to stay.
Remember when Star Wars came out we got a glut of awful knockoffs, by people who understood Star Wars just enough to know people wanted to see space adventures but made really bad movies that completely missed the point ? They made those bad movies for one purpose, money. Bums on seats.
Diversity to some is more bums on seats, doesn't mean they understand how to make a good diverse character so they err in making these characters artificially appealing.
I'm not saying that's how it went, but I'm willing to bet that Rey got a bit of a boost because they wanted to expedite a few things and people who lack imagination preferred to believe it was yet another conspiracy than try to believe somebody somewhere had made a stupid decision.
So how do I look at the Disney sequels ?
There was plenty of good stuff and some stuff where I wanted to get off my seat and ask "Really ???"
I don't buy into the whole "George Lucas is a genius and the prequels are awesome because they are too complex and nuanced for the average person to understand."
That's the old "You're to square to get it" hipster answer when you know you're a fan of something that isn't great to begin with.
And I'm fine with that. TPM is maybe not a great film and the Jar Jars and the Gungans are too silly and Yippee is cringe-worthy moment. But it has Darth Maul, it has Qui Gon Ji a Jedi who for the most part has his together. It has genuine fun moments.
It's fine to be good enough. It's fine to like something that isn't perfect at every level.
The Rise of Skywalker and the Disney trilogy in one way feel like the answer to a question that wasn't asked. They try to give us a possible version of what happened to the heroes of the Rebellion and those who came after them. If you don't like it, fine, go read the EU books, they have plenty of extra adventures.
Star Wars is part of my DNA, it has a physical embodiment in all the toys I had, the lightsabers on the mantelpiece, the videos, the DVD's the Blu rays, the tchochkes, the RPGs the miniature games, the board games, the Marvel and Dark Horse comics, the EU novels …
Twenty years from now Pop Culture will look very different from now for better of for worse. It will be even more diverse and inclusive and even more under the control of large corporations who plan to milk it until the heat death of the universe and beyond if possible.
Enjoy the films, revisit the old, when you go to the cinema next week to go see it, look at all the others who participate in a shared adventure. Fun is what you make of it because 99% of everything is a bit crappy anyway, but I will not let it deter me …
I care about Star Wars, enough to be critical of it and then embrace it the next. It's not uniformly something to please everyone, and if it was it wouldn't be half as interesting to begin with.
May the Force be with you, warts and all.