Not me - the biggest problem I had with it was how intentionally subverted and destroyed the old canon as if it didn't matter.
Luke's role was mostly nonsense and Hamill knew it.
Skywalker became a true, mythic hero in Return of the Jedi. When he faced off against Palpatine, he made a choice - refute his Father's weakness and overcome it, become greater than that, sacrifice himself for all mankind by not giving in to the Dark Side. That was the rightful end to the character's story arc.
Then fans wait for twenty years to see him again and what do we get? A tired old man who did nothing with the legacy he earned. Grumpy, secluded, embittered... a hermit who considered murdering a young Kylo and telling Rey that none of that mattered and get off my lawn.
It was a terrible return and role for the character. One that insulted 30 years of legacy.
Star Wars fans writ large didn't go to the movie to be told "none of what you know and love matters" Not in one movie that was one other movie away from completely the last trilogy.
Boyega, Ridley, Hamill and many others directly involved know that the movie was a major mistake in the canon. So much so, that the final movie took as its considered mission, making sure that it became the "antidote" to the poison that it was".
The part in red...So in actuality, your anger is on George Lucas for not giving us a proper trilogy to conclude Luke's epic journey. You know a trilogy where Mark Hammill would still have been young enough, and the right age chronologically, to show that character's progression from galaxy wide hero to someone who truly experiences failure really for the first time, tries to make it right, and makes things worse in the process, resulting in him becoming a cynical old man.
The part in blue...Can you provide examples? I have an idea what you're saying, but I want to read it from you to be sure.
The part in purple...There is no such thing as a "mistake in canon." There may be things a person doesn't like, but there are no mistakes. And later canon contradicting earlier canon isn't a mistake either. I look at such instances this way: You have a story. Let 10 people tell that story and you likely could get 10 different versions with just some basic commonalities between all versions. It is extremely unlikely that all 10 people tell the story the exact same way. I personally loved The Last Jedi because Rian Johnson was bold enough to take the story to a place most fans did not expect.
And, as I have mentioned in previous posts, therein lies the rub...A lot of Star Wars fans
claim they want stories with different characters, and unexpected events/things/concepts they've not considered before. But when they get them..
* Rey (based on The Force Awakens) being a nobody with immense but untrained power with the Force
* Finn being a black stormtrooper
* Holdo's hyperspace jump through another ship
* Ships actually running out of fuel
* Using bombers in space (?conveniently? forgetting that in Empire Strikes Back there was a shot of Tie Fighters dropping bombs on asteroids while trying to flush the Millenium Falcon out of hiding)
...they literally lose their minds and tear the movie apart all over social media and internet forums.
