Child "actors" who can't act, Jar Jar Binks, trade route politics, mind-numbing over-choreographed lightsaber battles... yeah, these aren't the biggest problems with the trilogy.
One problem that I'd like to discuss is the pacing. Specifically, Palpatine's story happens too quickly, whereas Anakin's takes too long.
To put it another way, Palpatine should not have become Chancellor until the second film, and Anakin should already have been a Jedi-in-training in the first.
In fact... Anakin, not Obi-Wan, should have been Qui-Gon's apprentice, and Qui-Gon should have died halfway through The Phantom Menace rather than at the end. Anakin killing Maul for it, instead of bringing him in alive, could have been a wedge between the two of them in the second film.
I'm just spitballing here.
Also, as much as everybody mocks the "space politics" parts, my opinion is that we actually needed more of Palpatine, because he's the best thing in the prequels.
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