Also I think it's hard to get average people (as in, not super-fans) to care about in-between stories. That, I think, was the real problem with Solo. They didn't give people a reason to go see it. It had less to do with the backlash against TLJ and more with the fact Rogue One didn't have any impact on the story moving forward. Remember all the speculation that Rogue One would introduce Rey's parents, or explain Snoke? But then it didn't, and people went "oh, these side movies are skippable".
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