A theory on why he sold Star Wars

I don't believe so, but I guess it's possible.
He's gotten tired of Star Wars before. In 1983 after Return of the Jedi came out he said he was done making those movies and he didn't want to do any prequels or sequels.
I think he's just a guy who never really liked directing that much but he wanted to see his ideas put on film.
When you become rich enough to do whatever you want and you don't like directing films, then why hang on to the movie franchise that everyone keeps bugging you about?

Well MY theory is that after the prequels came out all the fanboys started screaming that he'd ruined their childhoods and they hated him, he was the worst human being ever to live. They went on and on back in the day, the way they go on and on about Disney now.

Of course that's not the primary reason he sold off the franchise, but IMHO that period may well have convinced him that he didn't owe the fans anything.

You might want to dig deep and look at George's beginnings as a child, who his father was, the movie set he was allowed to visit and study when he was a teenager. All the answers are there for the taking.

He sold Star Wars because of how disgustingly self-entitled and poisonous internet fans became. This all started back with the prequels with the bullshit "he raped my childhood" memes and ended with Red Letter Media trotting out the horrible Star Wars special to destroy his legacy as a filmmaker and paint him as an idiot bean counter who just credit for other people's work. I'm a creative, and I would be sick to my stomach if it turned out that fans of something I made that was meant to be positive were these very angry, bitter and toxic people.

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If you have something of great value , yet you do nothing with it , then someone offers to buy it for a large sum of money , you would sell , whoch is what Lucas did.

I really don't think it had anything to do with the fans. I think he was tired of it. A video I watched recently pointed out how Lucasfilm didn't really have any projects in development when it was sold to Disney. That's not really like George of old. He always had a dozen pots on the stove. I think he was just out of ideas, tired and sick of it all. The Disney stocks he got would more than keep his lifestyle going. They'll keep their worth forever. Stars Wars maybe not so much. It's not like he was already making the next three movies, well into pre-production and decided you know what, screw these assholes fans of mine. Or realized he was making society worse for creating golden idols. He was just old and tired.