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Your average fan or people who never read the EU like myself were in no way going to be able to digest that amount of information in a single movie. Especially since Luke/Han/Leia are old now whereas a lot of the events of the EU especially with their kids happened right after and only a few decades after Episode 6...not 30+ years later.
It doesn't make sense to keep that baggage when most people never read comics/novels, etc. The only way this would have worked is if we got a new trilogy with the original cast back in the 90's, when Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford, etc. were only a decade older after Episode 6 came out in 1983, but of course George Lucas was too busy planning and making the prequels at the time.
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