Gripes became PC editing

Okay, fellas, spoiled with modern day editing gear and the internet, you have to keep in mind the context of Lucas' experience.

Ned Tanen was a hard exec to work for. Nothing pleased him. Try reading "Skywalking: The Life And Films of George Lucas" by Dale Pollack. Lucas expresses his agony of writing each draft. He asked two of his closest friends to help him with dialogue and story issues, and after SW was a hit, he immediately hired Leigh Brackett to write "Empire". Then she died of cancer. That forced him to write the next draft himself. Referred by Spielberg, he then hired Larry Kasden, who was doing advertising work in Chicago, to write a draft of Empire, sight-unseen, except for one brief lunch meeting.

Years after Jedi had come out, Lucas said he would revisit EP 1-3 to please audiences, but he had already made the "most interesting parts of the story". He made it clear that they were on the boring side.

The entire story was modelled after 1930's serials, in which the acting was purposefully deadpan and fast. They were B movies. It was the slick digital world Lucas created, to avoid dealing with Universal or Fox's unpleasable execs, that made this B movie style look seemless.

Imagine your ideas, your time, energy and even some of your money, and still, someone who doesn't know you commands you to make changes in the name of the "best interests of the campany". That wouldn't make you upset?

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Jesus Christ is my agent.