They aren't going to just ignore the ST, folks just gotta accept it, it's part of the universe, it made tons of money, and they still are making products connected to it and have a big investment with their theme parks with it too. As always, they are gonna fill in gaps, is it going to be good? Probably not, can only fix so much.
Folks said much of the same about the prequels and that's become a popular era once again. Just gotta work around it, and tell good stories. The bad will always be there, but they aren't gonna just ignore a movie trilogy.
Despite the hate here and some other places, the ST does have it's fans still. The story group is just doing best they can with what was given to them, to try and explain and fill in the gaps, they always do. "who asked for this?" Obviously not you if you are saying this. A couple paragraphs in some random book does no harm or foul, it's giving the fans that do care about it something to play with. It's not like the random writer who spent maybe an afternoon to write up and edit this stuff is somehow stopping the star wars movies/tv shows, and other media you want from being made.
Still kills me that Rian Johnson gifted IX a Skywalker big bad and JJ somehow landed on "actually Ben is good and Palpatine is the villain". Now people at Lucasfilm have the impossible, thankless task of making IX not the worst.
Everyone just blames JJ, but this is Disney, Lucasfilm, Kennedy, and a giant list of folks fault who even let it happen. They could have changed the movie and done other things, but they all just let JJ do it with his cowriter who also is to blame.
It's also Disney's fault the whole thing was a rushed mess and likely a big reason for how bad it came out, they were determined at a release date, they had a writer and director all way along in production and then fired. JJ and his cowriter had to come up with a new script in a short span of time and it shows they went with the super lazy easy route. Why did no one at Lucasfilm, Disney, or Kathy get involved and stop this, they were involved as well and they didn't like the direction the movie was going with the previous director.
The whole ST is a mess of planning on Lucasfilm's part, they should have managed the whole project better.