I find it ridiculous that someone would consider Empire a good ending and TFA a cheat, and give reasons like “ESB felt solid” and “Luke needed dialog.”
TESB follows our main characters as they get split up and try to get away from the Empire. Luke goes to train and ends up back with them as they all try to finally get away. The ending gives us our remaining characters safe on a ship in the rebel fleet. Luke and Leia bid Lando and Chewy good luck finding Han and the two take off on a quest. The big story is wrapped up - the rebels are again safe, but they have lost Han. In TFA, the quest was to find Luke… then what. Showing that they found Luke was a weak ending. It’s like if TESB ended with Lando and Chewy landing on Tantooine and learning that Han is on display in Jabba’s palace. The unfinished quest worked better as an ending. Either no Luke or give Luke something interesting to say that makes the scene worth including. What they did didn’t work for me.