I very much agree. GL has never let the fans influence what he wants. People talk about how GL has given into the fans by using less Jar-Jar; that is nonsense, this is always how it waa going to be. The same with the whokle NSYNC thing. I still hear people saying that fan reaction got them cut. What crap!
If GL let fans influence the film it would be full of cloned Darth Maul's...
That said, he does give little nods to the fans in form of cameo appearances of the Death Star and so on, but on the whole, GL does things HIS way.