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They did, they got everything, when Lucas sold out to the 'white slavers'.
Which is why they intially declared nearly all EU stuff to be non canon ('Legends'), and then started making bit and pieces of them canon, by piecemeal making media with many of the characters and concepts and half plot arcs and beats from them, into various parts of their movies and shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_in_other_media#Disney_acquisition_and_canon_restructuring
They... they got all of Lucasfilm.
Thats literally all StarWars IP, up to 2014.
George had been very careful to run everything through Lucasfilm.
They even got Zahn to come back and write new Thrawn and Ashoka books, to try to make those characters make more sense with the new canon.
It really was as simple as "Kathleen Kennedy decided she knew best, fucked up continuously and broke everything, pretended the entire time she did everything on purpose."