I was more talking about Luke and Ben’s personal conflict than anything else but you can take however you want to.
I know. I’m looking at the bigger picture.
Looking at the bigger bigger picture Luke’s arc and character from the OT were sacrificed in order to make Rey the last of the Jedi. Like, she’s literally at the end of TLJ the same thing that Luke is at the end of RotJ.
The only thing making it not the same exact situation is that in TLJ they took the opposite twist as in the OT: Vader (Ren) killed the emperor (Snoke) and is now the supreme leader of the Galaxy. And the rebels (Resistance) lost to the Empire (first order).
This bothers me.
Luke had the one mission, to recreate the Jedi Order. I’m sorry to quote something from the EU, but Obi-Wan said to Luke in the First of the Thrawn books: “you’re not the last of the old; you’re the First of the new”. And I always thought that way. I find it hard to believe that Luke would be a PT-like Jedi. Heck, I always thought that was the most important part of the overall Darth Vader arc.
And it seems to me that it’s all been sacrificed in order to make Luke Rey’s Yoda, so that she can be the last of the Jedi. Sure, he went out as a badass in maybe my favorite scene in cinema history, but I’m not sure if that makes it up for it.