Thank you for your weird opinion, but a commercial company can only dismiss something in their own perception.

Which doesn’t have any obligatory influence upon EU’s existence or SW fandom.

Also most of the EU is very much not garbage, many parts on par with Heinlein and Asimov and Philip K. Dick.

I suggest you educate yourself, it’s both embarrassing and impolite to insult books you hadn’t read.

EDIT: Point being - of course it still matters.