The original fairy tales are also a lot darker than the sanitized versions most people are familiar with today.
Most myths too of course, complete happy endings in those were a little elusive.
Not to mention, of course, Star Wars has never been just a fairy tale. That’s just one aspect of it. And it was never supposed to be just another myth. It was supposed to be the creation of a new modern myth. Deconstruction has been built into the franchise since the beginning.
Yes, but it still strictly adheres to the hero’s journey, since Lucas was a great admirer of Joseph Campbell. Lucas created a modern myth, but that has now been broken to extend the story. The decisive victory was turned into a short lived one, and the hero of the story fell from his pedestal, foregoing all his beliefs.
I think it is perfectly fine to enjoy the ongoing story, but we should also be able to view the OT in it’s original context. I don’t think it is fair to just view the previous films through the retconned vision of the ST. This is what happens, when people argue, that the critics view Luke in the wrong way, wanting him to be this legendary hero. He was the legendary hero, as is consistent with the final stage of the hero’s journey, but that mythical status was stripped away in order to continue the story.