The article dances around and slightly touches this, but for me, it was always the mythos and size of the universe. The movies were never the big draw for me. T

The article dances around and slightly touches this, but for me, it was always the mythos and size of the universe. The movies were never the big draw for me. The novels held the true universe. Legends was massive. The feats within Legends were sometimes outlandish, so it makes sense that it was all scrapped. The Plagueis meme was a throwaway line in a prequal movie. Luceno wrote the novel roughly 7 years later, and it is one of my favorite SW novels to date. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of the Rule of Two, the Sith moving in the shadows to subvert an entire collective of governments, and the true power of patience. Current canon isn't giving the universe enough room to breathe. They want to fill in every last detail on the timeline with no room for secondary or tertiary characters to have their own plot in the background. Plagueis was Sidious' master, but Luceno did not nor needed to fill in every last detail of Sidious' apprenticeship. We get some details of a young Palpatine, but the novel doesn't crash headfirst into the Phantom Menace. TL;DR: Star Wars shined, because it always left room for interpretation and exploration - even in fleshed out novels.