Agreed, say what you will about the prequels, but they had fucking awesome ship design and you could really see the evolution along the way to get to the ships we know from the OT. Thats where ive really been disappointed with the new sequels, the ship design has suuuuuucked. Yeah i get that the first order is sticking to what worked for the empire; TIEs and Star Destroyers etc, and the T-70 x-wings were pretty cool, but everything else and with the new stuff thats leaked from TLJ especially, its just more of the same, it hasnt evolved ENOUGH, its too much memberberries.

SPOILERS I GUESS, i appreciate that the new First Order walkers have blades on their front legs, that seems like a no brainer after Hoth, but they still basically look like AT-ATs, theyre a little more gorilla than camel, but its nowhere near different enough from AT-ATs as AT-ATs were from AT-TEs... The Resistance bomber and transport are obviously B-wing derivatives, but theyre fucking boring, and not different enough either, not as different as the ARC-170s were from X-wings. Hell, there was more evolution in ship design between the prequels than their was between EP6 and 7. V-19 Torrents became ARC-170s became T-65 X-wings... became T-70 X-wings. Delta 7s became Eta-2s became TIE fighters became... First Order Special Forces TIE fighters. Meh. :-/

And then the stuff they came up with from scratch was just super boring. The First Order transports and Snowspeeders were just grey boxes.

Rogue One was a lot better about that. Silly wings aside the U-wing was pretty badass, as was Krennics shuttle.