> George Lucas is quite the fountain of ideas, but he needs a partner to help temper his vision.

This. Many say that the Star Wars OT became the great films they were because of George Lucas’ wife, Marcia, who also served as his editor. And actually one can feel the degradation of their relationship by seeing how ROTJ was much worse than the first two movies. (They divorced after releasing ROTJ.)

So now imagine if George did have complete rein of everything... [Vietnam flashbacks while thinking of the 2nd Trilogy and unnecessary remasters]