I don't really have strong opinions

At the risk of being pilloried, I think the sequels are better as a whole than the prequels. Revenge of the Sith made my brain hurt with its illogic.

yes

Understood, of course. Its emotional arcs are drawn in finger paint and crayon.

I mean I don’t know exactly what you mean by that, but I’m just going out on a limb to assume you mean mainly Anakin.

Yes. And big reactions to flimsy and/or forked-into-the-story stimuli.

Big reactions to flimsy stimuli...
Again I have no idea what you mean.

And if you’d like I could go into how each of the three movies contribute to Anakin’s slow fall to darkness.

Frankly, I wish they'd made him older in the first film. There was very little in the way of character development in that first one (missed opportunity) and then he suddenly goes fairly nuts in the last one. And the visions of Padme's death leading to his heel turn and thus to her death (while mythic) were kind of sloppy writing-wise.

Sorry, it’s hard for me to be concise when explaining this.

His young age and optimism in the Phantom Menace is meant to contrast with his older self. It shows how much 10 years has changed who he is. In the Phantom Menace, the Jedi refuse to train Anakin because at his age, he had much to get attached to in the world. Unfortunately, this does play into Jedi-hood.

He sees himself as very powerful, and he develops a lot of hubris. And he thinks he’s being held back, especially after he fails to save his mother, who he promised he would come back for. On top of mourning her death, he also blames his mentor for not training him to his fullest instead of dealing with a death like a Jedi usually would.

It becomes clear that 10 years of Jedi training has made him into a different person. Training him to suppress emotion and never love, puts him in a weird place when he finds the woman he loves.

Again, sorry.

I love your enthusiasm for it and the depth of your knowledge. All that is true, but the story is moved forward in a series of jerky beats that come off as less motivated because the writers didn't figure out how to underpin them. The Fall of Anakin is there, potentially in its true and most tragic form, but story-telling-wise, the movie falls short (for me).

Just for a moment, imagine a different sort of Phantom Edit, where Anakin is 12 or 13 in Episode 1, where instead of being a button-nosed midichlorian wonderkind (and how AWFUL was it that they decided for that movie to make Jedi potential something you could test with a blood test?), he was already showing Jedi powers, strongly motivated by his passion for justice, not always wisely. That way, instead of there being a dry rule that needs exposition ("You know he's too old because . . .") we would see both his potential and the risk he represents, as he genuinely wants to help the stranded Jedi but does something destructive in the process.

With that groundwork, they wouldn't have to yank so hard in the later movies, and always with the Tell, Tell, Tell. But what we have is what we have, Binks, "I hate sand" and all.

Well yeah. Midichlorians prove and confirm why the force is strong in the skywalker family. I don’t know why people thought “anyone could be a Jedi” when they saw the original trilogy. Return of the Jedi showed that it was a genetic trait. And then the Phantom Menace explained it scientifically.

As for Anakin’s age, Attack of the Clones showed that younglings would start off as young as 6 or 5. So someone who had 5 more years of relationships and attachment would be a dangerous and emotional warrior of a Jedi... even the chosen one.

And I love Star Wars, even the messy movies. I wouldn't want to miss out on this bit, for instance.

they are both good