I'm not gonna blame Rian Johnson for this; but, he did echo this leftists pattern in The Last Jedi, "Kill the Past."
No, don't kill the past. Learn and grow from the past. Revere parts of the past, especially the art. Understand that you're swiftly falling into the past yourself, and will likely be relegated to the doldrums of history.
We should protect our past, even when it was bad.