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The ANNCast Holiday Special

When it came out, the most ubiquitous complaints made by people making angry tweets and Youtube videos were "Why would Rey be so powerful, she's a woman", complaining about Finn and Rose Tico - who, as you remember, was harassed off of social media as a result. They complained heavily about Luke not being a badass anymore (he wasn't ever really a traditional action hero, and he closes the movie out with incredible heroism and an extremely well-shot fight sequence). Most of the complaints about The Last Jedi seem to come from people who just straight up do not ever want any emotional maturity or diversity of both cast and storytelling in Star Wars - they don't ever want to be challenged, it absolutely has to be "Chosen One Straight White Man Kicks Ass".

Which is boring. And not even really what the OT was about. It's all very politicized and milked for clicks by Youtube grifters whipping people up with specious, empty-headed nonsense. There are certainly people who have other issues with the film, but this is the driving force (so to speak) behind a lot of the over-the-top screaming internet hatred that movie got.

During the late period of the Galactic Republic, the Sith Lords Darth Plagueis and his apprentice, Darth Sidious, conducted the Grand Experiment on the moon Sojourn in 42 BBY. Utilizing Sith alchemy and the dark side of the Force, Plagueis intended to create the living embodiment of the Force. In order to do so, he tried to influence the midi-chlorians in his attempt to create life. But when his efforts bore no success, and instead wiped out his other experiments, Plagueis deemed the project a failure.

Years later, during the Crisis on Naboo in 32 BBY, Plagueis was surprised to discover the existence of Anakin Skywalker, a young Human boy born without a father. Plagueis concluded that not only had the midi-chlorians resisted his will, but they had also retaliated by engineering the conception of the Jedi Order's long-awaited Chosen One, a Jedi destined to restore balance to the Force by destroying the Sith.[1]

To be fair, the vast majority of the EU was within 50 years post-ROTJ. And Lucas himself had some basic ideas for 7-9 and what Rogue One turned out to be.

I don't know why Crispy thinks wiping most of the EU matters. I guarantee the VAST majority of moviegoers have no idea who Kyle Katarn is for example. And besides, they took Thrawn and just put him in a different era so they can easily do the same with certain other EU characters if they felt like it.

There are many, many legitimate issues with TLJ and honestly you seem to be from another world with your rationale for why there was so much criticism. While there are some grifters who may be motivated the way you say, the vast, vast majority of the criticism comes from ordinary fans and viewers who did not like what they saw for legitimate reasons.