Let's hope that this is just what it claims to be: a rumor.
Meanwhile, anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together is going to look back at how Disney marketed this originally and think "Whatever you say, my guy".
Which is fine, but you only get one; and people will invest less in future stories knowing they have a higher chance of resolving cheaply.
Same folks who shitcanned the Expanded Universe:
> On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the Expanded Universe material with the exception of The Clone Wars as Star Wars Legends and declared it non-canonical to the franchise. The company's focus would be shifted towards a restructured Star Wars canon based on new material.[60][63][64] Chee said in a 2014 Twitter post that a "primary goal" of the story group would be to replace the previous hierarchical canon (of the Holocron) with one cohesive one.[58] […]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_in_other_media#Disne...
Plus, the actors were too old to portray the existing EU storylines for Luke/Han/Leia at that point anyway etc etc etc
Nobody struggles with multiple Joker variants running around. Batman is still Batman.
No one thinks of Adam West any less for Keaton, Bale, Patterson, etc. (Though the running joke seems to be that Clooney thinks less of himself for his role. :)
According to the rumour they want to keep Jar-Jar but get rid of the Ewoks.
For mainstream fans, the whole Star Wars franchise has been diluted with mediocre stories, I don't think they'd care. It's just another SW movie to watch.
That being said, this isn't the first time decannoizing the sequels has been brought up in a rumor. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just more wishful thinking.
lol. More Star Wars is good.