Supermatt, I think you mis-read why people didn't like Rian's treatment of Luke. It wasn't the exile, it was that Luke turned into a flippant unhelpful caricature. Luke's character has always been one who wanted to help. Most of all to his friends. Going into exile in TFA was, ideally, becuase he thought that would be the most help, to protect them. So when Rey arrives, Luke's character would have behaved more akin to Yoda in ESB than to what Rian created. It's not a subversion of expectations that is annoying, its the complete altering of the fundamental character of Luke, as Mark Hamill recognized early on.
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