intergenerational differences

You don't get it, do you?
When there exists something good and worthwhile, and actual censorship is too difficult to achieve, they just pour shit over it until the worthwhile thing is completely covered.
Just look at Star Wars. Original trilogy is basically a teutonic / samurai coming of age/hero's journey story, and it's actually really good.
They can't exactly forbid it. But they can ruin everyone's childhood again and again and again until nobody wants to ever see even the originals.
Just look at LotR. Good trilogy. Solid movies. Then, the Hobbit, which they turned into a manure trilogy as well, even though it's a meager, thin, children's book. And I bet they will milk this even further too, or do another remake of the original.
Point is, they want there to be no identifiable "original" - just remakes and spinoffs and different "versions", with no single one version as canon.
This strategy inhibits the formation of intergenerational cultural canon.

Good luck showing the Empire Strikes Back to your seven years old son, and having him give a shit. He will have seen fifteen star wars spinoffs already, and he knows all the characters by name, and luke isn't even cool compared to the gray-jedi cyborg Fgh'Ir Esh from the expanded Solo Story heptology, who can shoot lightning out of his eyes and fly, and once he took out an entire army of evil Luke Skywalker clones, so whatever.

The goal is to have individuals and generations share nothing in common, and for there to be nothing to form a common understanding around.