The OT characters contradicted their PT counterparts
In the prequels Yoda came off like upper management "the job is job" type
We don't get a sense of the friendship between Obi- Wan and Anakin. He seemed annoyed by him in two and half movies.
Anakin wasn't a good guy who fell from grace like everyone mentioned in the OT. He was selfish, arrogant, committed genocide, and dumb.
Nobody actually calls Anakin a good guy in the OGs, this is something people remember that does not exist.
Beru: "He has too much of his father in him"
Owen: "That's what I'm afraid of
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"
Obi-Wan: "He was a great pilot, a cunning warrior and a good friend"
And then later "When I met him he was strong in the force...He was seduced by the darkside, by the Emperor, now he's more machine than man"
Yoda barely mentions him at all, but he's
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at training Luke just like he was
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for a reason.
Emperor: "You like your father are now MINE"
Except for ObiWan, everyone is pretty much
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at the memory of Anakin, and even ObiWan isn't too keen on Luke planning to redeem him.
That's literally all the mentions of Anakin we get.