Lucasfilm executive Pablo Hidalgo is explaining why the First Order didn’t blow up Coruscant in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. After being absent from the original trilogy, the planet of Coruscant made its live-action debut in The Phantom Menace . As the capital of the Galactic Republic and location of the Jedi Temple, Coruscant was one of the most prominent locations in George Lucas’ prequel trilogy.
After the start of the Clone Wars, Coruscant became a corrupt and dangerous place due to the conflict between the Jedi Order and the Sith. In Revenge of the Sith , Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious, with more than a little help from Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, ended the Republic and formed the Empire.
Basically BR wanted it blown up; LFL didn’t. Hosnian Prime was the unsatisfying middle ground. It happens. This has all been adequately explained in the years since The Force Awakens. Season 2 of Disney+’s The Mandalorian revealed that Chandrila became the capital of the New Republic following the fall of the evil Empire. However, it was not a permanent seat of the senate as the Republic chose to rotate its capital world based on elections.
Originally, Coruscant was going to show up in Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates script for Episode IX before the powers that be abandoned his story. Many view the decision not to include Coruscant as Disney/Lucasfilm’s way of distancing the sequels from the divisiveness of the prequels, and that may have been the case.
Good that would've been dumb
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