A lot of people treat Star Wars fans as a monolith. But I would argue there are different factions in them to the point they can be considered a conglomerate of sub-fandoms. This is why some people hear contradictory opinions from Star Wars fans because they are from different factions of the Star Wars fandom.
Here are the Star Wars fandom factions as I have observed them:
Original Trilogy purists: They love the original trilogy and hate everything else. Including George Lucas himself. Basically, they view Star Wars from the memories they had of it as children, not for what it is. These tend to be Gen X'ers.
Prequel Trilogy lovers: People who grew up with the Prequel Trilogy. These tend to be Millenials. In my experience they do not like the Original Trilogy purists due to the Original Trilogy purists shitting all over the prequels with some deserved and a lot of undeserved criticism. (I can relate.)
Old Expanded Universe lovers: These are people who love the old Star Wars Expanded Universe before Disney bought it. There are subcategories of Expanded Universe fans specifically when it comes to the Clone Wars stuff. Nowadays the old EU is referred to as Star Wars Legends.
Clone wars fans: This is a sub-category of the Old EU lovers. There are the ones who love the Clone Wars multi-media project which included the Darkhorse comics, Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars micro series and all the video games from that time. And the other ones are fans of the CGI The Clone Wars show by Dave Filoni. From my experience the former does not like the latter due to the former being retconned by the latter. (I can relate to that).
Sequel trilogy fans: These are people who love the sequel trilogy and the Disney era as a whole. This seems to be a mix of millenials and zoomers.
Disney Expanded Universe fans: They tend to fit with Sequel trilogy fans since it is part of the DIsney era. Also, there is some overlap with fans of The Clone Wars by Dave Filoni since a lot of the lore from the Disney era is based on that show. Especially, in how it portrays the Clone Wars and prequel era.