Yeah but some of the best stuff in the Expanded Universe came out between 2002 and 2008. TCW retconned so much of it and all of the new material was average at best, if not complete garbage. Remember Abeloth? No I don't want to remember... that story was dumb. Remember the Jaina books? No wait they never got made... Remember all of the other stuff they promised? Me neither, because TCW got rid of it.
I don't like Midichlorians either but Ghosts of Mortis was not the way to solve that. Maybe people think that Ghosts of Mortis was cool, but as a story device they are as bad, maybe even worse than Midichlorians. The concept of Ghosts of Mortis makes no sense and leads to more questions, they don't answer any questions. Now 10 years later they have never explained Ghosts of Mortis coherently. So there are Force Gods now? That is what we are going with? We can't have canon Sith ghosts but we can have Force Gods? The Force as a concept never required the use of gods. This is what I should have expected from George "I don't want gobbledeeguk in my story" Lucas. Proceeds to write gobbledeeguk.