Disney crapped all over the core of Star Wars. Their totally unnecessary SJW injections and unexplained breaks with previous movies was bad enough.
The fact that they killed off the original characters in an ignoble manner, they also turned them into weaklings and failures in everything they did.
My husband has the same opinion. He was actually angry at how the original characters were treated in these films. So, I will never know how the trilogy ended; and, I'm not unhappy about that.
They didn't have much choice about killing Leia off. It was time for Harrison Ford to give up the spotlight and dying probably gave him a better moment than stick around longer would. And really, when was Mark Hamill anything much more than a weakling and failure. I don't love the new characters, but there was only so far they could go with the old ones.
One of the endings rumored to have been done but rejected for now.... was to blow up the Millennium Falcon and the two robots. I bet that will happen in some future film.