Gonna have to disagree with you there. For its time Star Wars was a masterpiece. Yeah it was derivative, but then again, so was Freespace. And like Freespace it took a bunch of elements from other sources and blended them well. Even now I'd still say it's a great trilogy. If you don't think so, that's fine. But you don't get to claim your view is any more objective than mine just because you disagree. Even if you want to claim it's aged badly then that's pretty unfair cause TFA will age a lot more quickly than ANH did.
I said that, as a film, TFA is objectively better than the OT films based on the sum of the constituent grounds by which films are ordinarily analyzed, and I'll point out that no one has actively demonstrated where any of the criteria I used were false or inappropriate.
character development stuff
A note: I should have said more development than each of their ANH analogues. Obviously Poe doesn't go through as much development as the main characters, but as compared to his analogue - Wedge, FTR - we learn much more about Poe than we do Wedge. But more importantly...
Luke goes from whiny, planet-bound kid to whiny space kid, but virtue of the death of his aunt and uncle who he spends all of a minute mourning despite the fact that they raised him from a child. Following that brief moment, nary a thought. The sum total of Luke's development is his discovery that he can use the Force and maybe be the hero he always wanted. Contrast to Rey: child abandoned on planet and who has stayed, despite awful conditions, waiting for her family to come back to her, is forced to leave planet when droid she rescues (against her better judgment) results in her being shot at, develops a bond with another character she meets in the process, flees the planet, discovers Skywalker's lightsaber, gets kidnapped by the First Order, discovers she's a Force user, self-rescues (despite her earlier panic), then engages in battle with a Dark Jedi after her mentor figure is murdered by him in cold blood.
Or Han vs Finn. Han is a sarcastic bounty hunter who discovers he has a heart, maybe. D'aaawww. (And don't get me wrong, Harrison Ford's acting is the strongest in ANH). Finn is a conditioned Stormtrooper whose conditioning breaks in the course of his first battle deployment (and given the later revelation that he worked in sanitation, this is actually unsurprising; high stress situations are commonly known in psychology to break even the best training/conditioning - a phenomenon I'm intimately familiar with in the law enf context). He finds his only opportunity to escape in a Resistance pilot who is captured by the First Order, whom he helps escape, in the process being willing to kill fellow First Order troops out of a combination of terror of recapture and self-preservation. His sole motivation from this point until Rey is taken is to escape the First Order (with Rey, after they form their bond), after which he is dedicated to getting his friend out of their clutches, being willing to go so far as to engage in battle with a Dark Jedi to do it. Much as I heart Han in the OT, his character development takes three movies for what Finn managed basically in one. That's not Harrison Ford's fault; it's a sign that much more thought was put into the characters of TFA than ANH or the arc of the other OT films individually.
But even with that, I still challenge your claim about character development, Compare General Hux vs Grand Moff Tarkin. Both hold the same position in the films yet Tarkin is infinitely better developed even though both have roughly the same amount of time on screen.
What? Both are clear mustache-twirling villains. There's virtually no distinction, other than Tarkin's performance is admittedly more subdued and terrifying than Hux's over-the-top bluster. Then again, Tarkin is a pragmatic Imperial officer, while Hux is a true believer zealot.
You also claimed earlier that Poe was a better developed character than in characters in the OT. Of course this is nonsense, we know virtually nothing about him and his character doesn't change at all during the film. He might evolve into a better character in the later films but right now he's just Han Solo Lite.
As above, Poe is Wedge's better-developed analogue. Finn is Solo's, and he IS much better developed. Finn is plausibly written from a psychology perspective (right down to the near-panic attacks at the prospect of the First Order showing up). Han is a cliche in the OT. A lovable cliche, to be sure, but still a cliche.
In fact the film fails almost all of the supporting cast in a big way. I've already complained numerous times about Captain Phasma being a complete waste of screen time from the way she was used. And I'm sure I'm not the only person to have a bad taste in my mouth from the way she meekly submitted to lower the shields and get stuffed in a trash compactor.
TFA has a bigger core cast to which more screen time is developed, a choice I agree with. ANH gave us cliched characters with a wider range of supporting cast. TFA focuses the story on a marginally bigger core cast, at the expense of the supporting roles. I agree Phasma was a wasted character; her inclusion in TFA was ultimately rather pointless and I'm not sure why they bothered with a named character in that role at all versus miscellaneous Stormtroopers.