From a straight drama perspective, you have the give the characters struggles and conflict or there's no story. So some regression is always going to happen when bringing back old heroes.
However, that doesn't preclude moving these characters to a mentor role and shifting to a new generation of heroes, like what Force Awakens seemed to be doing before Rian Johnson effed it all up.
On another level though there is a real push to destroy all the old heroes people like. It's market share monopolization; if people have nothing left but woke heroes then we'll actually start liking woke heroes, right? Rian Johnson and many other progressive types hate fantasy because it's inherently conservative, so they "deconstruct" it in order to transform it into a progressive fantasy. But it failed and people rejected it because it's just not Star Wars anymore.
From a straight drama perspective, you have the give the characters struggles and conflict or there's no story. So some regression is always going to happen when bringing back old heroes.
However, that doesn't preclude moving these characters to a mentor role and shifting to a new generation of heroes, like what Force Awakens seemed to be doing before Rian Johnson effed it all up.
On another level though there is a real push to destroy all the old heroes people like. It's market share monopolization; if people have nothing left but woke heroes then we'll actually start liking woke heroes, right? Rian Johnson and many other progressive types hate fantasy because it's inherently conservative, so they "deconstruct" it in order to transform it into a progressive fantasy. But it failed and people rejected it because it's just not Star Wars anymore.