I will never sympathise with this kind of hatred some people seem to foster to incredibly mundane things in our culture like a rather otherwise good movie. It's something I just can't empathise, my neurons are unable to square it.
I mean, I didn't like the prequels but I didn't hate them. They were just disappointing and a lost opportunity, not THE WORST WRITTEN THING IN A MILLENIA. I watched them on theathers and I wasn't mad at the end of each one, I just shrugged them off, and kept watching them with a smirk on my face whenever they ended up on tv or something.
Even when Plinkett distilled them, I enjoyed the distilling for uncovering of exactly what it was that made them less good than the originals, but there was no rage in there. I mean, not even RLM were ENRAGED by it at all.
I happen to have this habit of spoiling the least I can before I watch a show, and so for a ludicrous example of this, I didn't even know Korra was a sequel to Avatar before I watched it. Luckily I watched Avatar before Korra.
Now, after watching Korra, I realise that in the internet, there's this whole hatedom around Korra and the weird similarities and parallels to the other current hatedoms (like in TLJ) are astounding. It mostly also boils down to how dare they do something different. How dare they subvert expectations in their own ways and not in the ways I imagined they should. How dare this new thing not be the exact same thing the old was, and how dare it have some flaws of its own, rather than just repeat the old flaws of the old.
And then, of course, there's the gender thing. It's getting tiresome, and I hope people are catching up to it?