Okay then. Honestly, I haven't seen or experienced any Star Wars story, besides the original, that was "burning to be told". Not even games like KOTOR. Again, I think this factors into expectations. Was even the original trilogy burning to be told? I mean, in hindsight we think it is but it's because we grew up with them, and when you're young you have a larger inclination towards stories like Star Wars. I mean, originally, ANH was just Star Wars and there were no plans for a sequel, much less a trilogy. I think this also factors possibly into age. I'm not sure how old you are, or when you got into Star Wars, but I got into them with the Special Editions when they were in theaters in 1997. That was my introduction to Star Wars and sealed my love for space opera. But then I was an 11 year old kid, so of course Star Wars was a story "burning to be told". I thought Final Fantasy VII, which was released later in the year, was the best story I ever experienced. I was a fucking kid, and that's how kids think. It also helps that, again, depending on how old you are, all of the original trilogy were already out when you were a kid. We had the luxury of watching them back to back with ease and didn't have to wait two-three years for new entries. When the Special Editions came out, they would release one movie in the trilogy a month in theaters for a limited time only. Things are going to feel like they have a reason to be told when you get to watch the entire series in a three month time span, or if you had them on VHS or Laserdisc, in the span of a day.
In reality, the only reasoning these movies exist and have ever existed is to show a story of a youth with potential to defeat the dark big bad, which is all the justification they've ever really needed to exist.