The two recent films are right up there with Attack of the Clones for crappiest Star Wars movie and AOTC at least had the excuse of needing to get from TPM to ROTS. Neither of the recent stories seem to link very well to the rest of the universe. I really don’t buy their portrayal of Luke, nor the whole rise of the First Order and complete disappearance of the Empire/Rebellion/New republic military in the space of 30 years, especially when they’re making planet sized super weapons and mega city sized Star destroyers.
It all just seems poorly thought out, badly connected and driven by timescales and marketing. For all their faults, at least the Prequels were well connected, and Clone Wars (cartoon) helped the narrative.
I fully agree that Rebels is the best, original things to come out so far. Solo is based upon (loosely) the Solo trilogy of books (characters, organisations. Etc) and Rogue one is based on back Story, but Rebels is original (well, not Thrawn, we have Tim Zahn to thank for that), engaging and very well tied into the universe.