>>2501That's because there isn't much to discuss from that period outside of the movies, and the movies are pretty straightforward. The EU in the early days had a bunch of crappy novels and cash-in comics that are better left forgotten. Those, plus the movies themselves, kind of limit the stuff that can be crammed into that time period. There is good stuff like Shadow of the Empire and Rogue Squadron, but they're not overly consequential. And the less said about Disney's rewrites of the canon the better.
There's a lot more content focused on what happened after Episode 6, but it's still made up of a lot of hit-or-miss novels/comics from that era between the trilogies when popular interest wasn't being as actively drawn to the series. This is probably the actual least discussed time period. I hardly ever see people talk about the New Jedi Order or Legacy periods beyond someone occasionally calling them bad.
The prequels, and especially episodes 2 and 3, really ramped up the EU with a ton of supplementary material designed and released alongside the movies. I think episode 2 had six different games all released within the movie's release window. So even if the prequels themselves are horribly written, the overall amount of content that has more than fringe appeal for that period is much higher than for the OT period. Also, it's easier to make critiques and quote hilariously bad lines than to formulate meaningful praise.
The Old Republic era is kind of an outlier in that 95% of its discussion is centered on the two KotOR games, which have a large and very dedicated fanbase anda ton of stuff worth talking about, with 2 in particular being a gold mine. They're practically movie-level entries within those circles and the other stuff from the period like the Exar-kun war are basically just side notes.