Once again a lot of your thoughts here mirror my own, albeit with a different perspective. I burnt out on Star Wars in its entirety (films, EU, everything) in high school (after the special editions but before the prequels, if you want to timeline that) for a number of inter-related reasons. I watched the prequels out of a sense of duty and played bits and pieces of various KOTOR/SWTOR story lines, because BioWare, but largely I had given up on the franchise.

Disney taking full ownership of Star Wars actually has me excited and thinking about the franchise again. I also think ignoring the EU for films is most likely a good idea given what I remember of the EU and its increasingly over-complicated canon and fanon.