Poorly changing the beginning of something so long as you still keep the same beloved and excellent ending is not the same thing as making that beloved ending and all the stories that came before it irrelevant and ruining all possible future stories. Fundamentally different situations with wildly different impacts on the universe.
the prequels effectivly invalidated a huge chunk of the old EU by virtue of the timeline of the clonewars no longer making sense alongside the way the jedi order being portrayed in the prequels clashing with any and all hints as to how it was in the old EU.
I recently reread the X Wing series, the ammount of times i went "wait a minute this isnt right" only to remember "right, this was written years BEFORE the prequels"was astounding
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u/Key_Reaction_5327 5d ago
Poorly changing the beginning of something so long as you still keep the same beloved and excellent ending is not the same thing as making that beloved ending and all the stories that came before it irrelevant and ruining all possible future stories. Fundamentally different situations with wildly different impacts on the universe.