"You can't please anybody" is kind of a retarded sentiment. It means you're unsuited, incapable or unwilling to try and please people. It's probably that weird place of thinking fans want retarded fan service. Then when they are annoyed at it, thinking, "well we tried to please them."
What on earth did the sequels do to try and please anyone? Look how that worked out.
I get not wanting to be completely limited to the letter of some EU book of lore, but the attitude should be to try and please the hardcore fans, but not limiting it to the exclusion of the wider audience. I'm not a hardcore lore fan of anything, but I really appreciate watching something when you can tell there's a deep lore and thought to it.
Like most genre IP stuff in Hollywood, this shit just comes off as people who aren't really fans, don't really care who want to do their thing and will blame the fans they're not trying to please when no one likes it.