SPECULATION The Star Forge In Rebels?

Ultimately the player connection is what people love. I think Revan should be adopted into the new canon, however they should be careful in how they choose to do so. I say make him a legendary historical figure in the SW universe, someone who played an important part in the history of the universe, but concrete details about him and his motivations have been lost to the sands of time. There's no need for us to know what race or even gender that Revan possessed. Same goes for where Revan truly stood on the morality scale. Adapting Revan into canon this way allows people to hold onto their own interpretations of the character, while at the same time giving him/her an appealing sense of mystery(kinda like Boba Fett before AotC ruined that). I will always maintain that one of the biggest mistakes that The Old Republic made in the story telling department was telling and showing us way to much about Revan.

 

I agree as well, I just feel that it makes sense to grab the best bits from previous stories when they are building the new canon.

That is indeed the problem with canon though, while it's necessary to have some sort of canon for your stories to make sense, being overly beholden to it can be very constricting from a creative standpoint. Take the new novels that we are getting in LucasFilm's new canon for instance. While I'm enjoying them for the most part, they are held back somewhat by the constraints of canon. Frankly, while we can still get excellent character driven novels like Bloodline, they can never be as free to tell epic stories in the way that novels, comics and games could in the EU. The reason behind that is simple, nothing too important can happen in a book because the big stuff has to be saved for the movies.