I appreciate that George had a clear vision.

I cant...because ideas are cheap

Real story is with characters and emotion

Not Shiny new planets with zero worldbuilding value (coruscant)

He didn't have a clear vision. He had loose threads of ideas that weren't concrete until scripts were tweaked and scenes filmed. Vader was never supposed to be a central character, much less Luke's father. Leia was never supposed to be Luke's sister, which is why they're constantly kissing on the mouth even up through RoTJ (there's a deleted scene depicting Han's rescue where Luke and Leia greet by kissing on the mouth).

The idea that Lucas knew what he was doing, and knew exactly what he wanted, the whole time is absolutely false. The original Star Wars trilogy was an utter fluke that wouldn't have been a success without the helping hands of many other professionals besides Lucas.

This is why the "special editions" and prequels were so bad. Lucas only had "yes men" around him after the success of the originals.

I tend to agree. The outline plot for the PT is pretty solid. He just badly needed to delegate control on directing and some other execution areas. IMO he spent too much time enjoying CGI (fine if that's all he was responsible for, after the story was in place) while other responsibilities suffered.