True but ROTJ isn't what I would have written either but
I also would have never put the stealing of the DS plans on screen nor would I have dared want anyone to touch a story about young Han Solo. So I'm always happy to be proven wrong. Now if I had the opportunity to go back in time and watch an alternate ST that was more in line with Legends EU would I? Sure. Do I think it would have been better than what we got? I really can't say. As has been echoed several times having Luke and Leia more front and center in the action could have done more harm than good at their ages and fitness levels.
My initial preference when I started resisting how Luke was handled in TLJ was that they should have presented him more like Odin in the MCU. A wise and powerful leader who was remote and of a more administrative type with his hands tied by a number of grand things throughout the galaxy and therefore not able to just go galivanting around the galaxy with the youngins. But I'm not so sure that *that* would have been the way to go because even with Odin played by the mighty Anthony Hopkins and never doing anything unbecoming like slurping green milk he didn't really leave much of an impression on the story overall.
Yes TLJ thrust Luke down into the mud but we got to watch his struggle front and center and then spectacularly rise above it in a way that fulfilled the "lip service" heroism of *both* the PT and OT that we'd never actually seen manifest before.
And this is where the genius of his portrayal really quite blows me away.
It's already been covered a number of times how Crait Luke perfectly fulfilled Yoda's teachings of using the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack, and when you are calm and passive. We've seen Luke be a warrior badass before. That's old news. Choking Gamorrean Guards, swishing alien goons off the desert skiff with his lightsaber, beating down Darth Vader himself. But we'd never seen him use the Force in exactly the way that Yoda described to turn the tide of a literal battle before. And no him tossing the saber in front of Palpatine doesn't count, that was him simply resisting the Dark Side and NOT using the Force in its purest Jedi form.
But TLJ took Luke's skills truly "next level." It didn't just repeat the desert skiff but with droids. It didn't have him waving his hands and destroying fleets of ships (why would people want that at all, it's a pure Sith move as TROS Palps himself demonstrated.) No it gave us something brand new that was totally badass in its own right, totally heroic. Honestly before the ST came around even as a lifelong SW fan I had a hard time wrapping my head around the notion that Yoda's teachings could ever be practical when facing evil on the scale of the First Order or Empire. But now thanks to TLJ I get it.
But wait there's more. What was the *entire* conflict of the PT summed up as and then summarily dismissed without a second thought? "A failure to listen." Padme called it out point blank and the one person who heard her did nothing about it because he did exactly what she said--didn't listen. But what does Luke do all throughout the movie while moping on the island? He listens!! Listens to Rey. To R2. To Yoda. He gives his speeches and justifies his actions but every time someone steps up and verbally counters him he always pauses, digests what they're saying, and reflects. And that is shown so beautifully in Mark Hamill's performance. When Rey reminds him that it was a Jedi who redeemed Vader. That was a start but not enough. Then R2 which prompted him to reconsider his refusal to train Rey. And finally Yoda who prompted him to fully rejoin the fight so to speak.
So in one film Luke singularly became what all the PT Jedi failed to be, singularly fulfilled Yoda's deepest teachings on using the Force, *and* singularly stepped up and did what PT Padme (the mother he never knew) had died hoping for the galaxy to achieve. There's just so many levels of brilliance there IMO.
In the late 70's we (the US) were a nation hurting from the Vietnam War and the scandal of Watergate. We needed a good gee whiz black and white hero to get us back on our feet again.
Now we live in a divisive country and world where people burn and pillage and scream and hate if they don't get their way and demonize those they disagree with without ever allowing there to be any merits in opposing views. If you're going to put a hero on the big screen to inspire all well to me TLJ Luke is an example for us all. As I said in one of the figure threads he embodies both extremes (the law enforcer who is too callous with the life of the man lying at his feet vs. "defunding the Jedi" altogether) but takes ownership of the failures of both sides and *rises above them* in a way that does *not* beget more violence and is instead good, humane, and sacrificial. I truly see him as the hero we needed but didn't deserve which is what Luke Skywalker was from the very beginning.
. Could have sworn Giancarlo had said in interviews we'd get a lot more about Gideon - well, I didn't get enough. 2 seasons in and I haven't got any real feel for his plans or motivation. 2 new characters (Frog Lady and Marshall) vs. old characters (Boba, Luke, Ahsoka, Bo-katan). 
