Does anyone actually want Han Solo or Lando dead and Luke isolated and a "sad, bittersweet" Jedi? That sounds like the same "dark" poser-ing that a lot of older college-age fans say they want, especially in the 90s.
Yeah, the same "dark" college-age posers who made hits out of the sad, bittersweet endings to the mythical Norse cosmology, the Arthur story, Shakespeare's tragedies, just about every version of the Batman story, nearly every well-received World War 2 movie, the Lord of the Rings, the Empire Strikes Back, the Sandman, etc. Only a poser could appreciate the dramatic value of fatalities in a myth-patterned war.