I'm on a boycott of most of the Star Wars franchise (I make exceptions solely for the Star Wars Jedi games and the Star Wars part of Disney Hollywood Studios) because I want nothing to do with the fandom(1), but I sometimes have information float past me while I'm doing other things. When the post-NJO novels started coming out, most of the negative changes were blamed on George Lucas meddling with things to maintain his vision of the franchise... but I'll be honest here, it feels like the Star Wars fandom will blame George Lucas for their toast being burnt in the morning, so I don't put much stock in such claims.

(1) Present company excepted. The fans that put me off to the franchise are the ones that consider the Original Trilogy (and only the original theatrical releases of such, at that) to be Holy Writ and everything else to be blasphemy at best.