Originally Posted by
godisawesome
The ST era was already a bit shakey after TFA, though it *could* have been carefully finessed into a different and fun era. After TLJ made sure to bury the new heroes, deny and advertise an even-more rigid copy-paste of the OT complete with inept idiots for the villains such that hadn’t appeared in the Kasdan-written Star Wars films (ESB, ROTJ, and TFA, actually), and make it so Luke really was just sitting around with his thumb up his ass while Ben Solo was still a loathsome prick, but now a boring one we were supposed to be fascinated with… yeah, it kind of had its neutered nature confirmed.
Nowadays, there *are* elements or retcons that can change things: actually exploiting Finn instead of trying to bury him, giving Luke successful and surviving students, etc.
But yeah, it had what already few interesting elements it could have stripped away.