For those of you that still struggle with the direction of the ST, and TLJ in particular, this article does a balanced analysis on what some of us fans expect, and how it affects our views on modern Star Wars:

http://www.seanpcarlin.com/star-wars-last-jedi-backlash/

I think one of the commentors says it best:

"…whatever you may have imagined for Luke Skywalker — and Han and Leia, for that matter — after the closing credits of Return of the Jedi is equally legitimate as what Abrams and Johnson conceived. Hell, once you recognize that their visions don’t even harmonize — talk about taking this new trilogy in completely incompatible directions! — you have free and full license to elevate your vision to “canonical” status, too. Just because Johnson got Hamill to star in his post–Return of the Jedi fantasy doesn’t somehow lend it more legitimacy than yours or mine.

That is, I think, what George Lucas intended when he closed the curtain on Luke’s saga in 1983: Where the character went from that point forward was entirely up to each of us…"