Ryan McAvoy said:

And in the original 1977 film where Luke (Who has never flown an X-Wing or starfighter before) is leading the trench run with two much more experienced pilots as his wing men is totally fine.

Luke leads the trench run because he is the hero that we are all rooting for. It makes no sense logically but it feels so right.

Exactly. Luke wouldn't even fly a fighter if it was according to logic. They just wouldn't let a farm boy they just met into an X-wing. I am sure they had more pilots than ships. So if there was an opening to fly one of the X-wings, some other trained rebel pilot would do it.

And stuff like this is all over the ANH, ESB and ROTJ, yet some people only see it in ROTJ.