In the audiobook the narrator pronounces it “Lah-ah-uke”
Also I don’t think I would call it lazy because having Luke fight an insane clone of himself is pretty bold as it’s a pretty out there concept. I think him fighting another Dark Side user who is more machine than man would have been lazy.
It might have been a serviceable concept if it were given time to breathe in The Last Command, but as it is it’s pretty terrible.
I agree that it should have had more development. Luuke came out of fucking nowhere.
Most of Zahn’s writing on the Force makes it feel like a comic book superpower, rather than a spiritual one.
I’m going to need examples because going off my memory he wrote the Force as if…it’s just the Force. Nothing seemed different about it as it was establish in the OT. I’m not even sure how one could discern the difference between a comic book power and a spiritual one.