TLJ loves the hell out of heroism, so I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. I just fundamentally understand the movie differently than you, I guess.
Would you be able to show some examples of that? Because TLJ is pretty much a de-construction of Star Wars hero narrative. There are no heroes in TLJ.
- The Jedi are corrupted, Luke stepped away because of it and because of it he could not be the hero Rey wanted him to be;
- The resistance is just as crooked as the “bad guys” from the first order, buying black market weapons to fund their ideology;
- Poe is a wrong doer who doesn’t care about the lives of his comrades, only glory;
- Rey couldn’t be a hero, since wan’t trained and by the end of the movie she is still holding on to the prospects of someone taking her in as a pupil;
- Finn tries an act of heroism, the movie stops him;
- Holdo does an act of heroism, but she wasn’t written as a likeable character. Constantly opposing the characters the audience knew and loved (poe);
Personally I don’t see any acts of heroism in TLJ, simply because the stakes aren’t that high in the movie.