Faster, more intense. -George Lucas
There’s nothing wrong with making things a little more intense than in earlier movies. TESB has some scenes that are more “intense” and dramatic than the action scenes from SW, like the Falcon nearly succeeding into letting three Star Destroyers to crash with each others or Luke’s rescue from the bottom of Cloud City. That may have been something amazing in 1980, but now it’s rather mundane compared with the crap you have in the prequels, for example. At some points things become too big, too epic and too dramatic, and these movies crossed my personal line a long time ago.
Also, I can’t see how the opening battle with the bombers can be seen as generic. It evokes WWII combat footage of B-17 bombers.
I found it way worse than the dogfighting scenes after the escape from the Death Star. That also evoked WWII combat footage, but it’s based on a critical idea: that the heroes (and the audience) cannot see the TIE Fighters all the time, we can only hear them and they are hard to hit. The early battle during the evacuation of D’Qar is rather forgettable in comparison.