I mean, they're still more interesting than anything in the new movies settingwise though. At least every single one of those planets were new-ish concepts in the Star Wars franchise that (personally) spoke to my imagination, meanwhile in the sequels you have Tatooine 2.0, some jungle with a bar in it, Hoth but also a giant spaceship, some random casino, Hoth but red and literally just a (beautiful) Irish island. All these places are just settings, there's no sense of these planet being places where people actually live, they're just empty settings.
The thing that makes Naboo, Kamino, Geonosis and Coruscant (in theory) work is that these are planets that play to the imagination, you wonder what else is there. For instance, I have always loved the concept of the Naboo and the fact that the Gungans are this huge civilization that no one knows of and lives just below the surface. Coruscant obviously is also very good on the imagination, even though it's obviously a pretty obvious rip from Trantor in the Foundation trilogy. The only planet in the sequel films so far that comes even close to being like that is Ahch-To, except they cut the one scene that actually delves into what the inhabitants of Ahch-To actually do beside taking care of some old ruins.
And sure, 'yada yada empty unneccesary worldbuilding', but to me none of the locations in the new mainline movies felt like actual locations rather than just setpieces. Is Maz Kanata's bar literally located on an empty planet with a bar in the middle of nowhere? The Force Awakens certainly makes it seem so. Surely there's more to Canto Bight than just a casino, a race track and empty grasslands? And I'm deliberately not counting Jakku, since while that has an actual semblance of culture, its culture is basically just 'Tatooine with a different name'.
