Yeah, I don't want to defend anything about Rise of Skywalker at all.
You're certainly right about how that functions in 'democracy with dynasties' and American politics.

'Original Mulan' was a legend not a movie, but I'm just being pedantic.

Making her the hero because of what she is versus what she does is shitty.

This is curious though, because if not for being a woman, Mulan would not be widely known at all.
Many hero stories are about something like that, how 'unlikely' people did amazing things.
That whole 'the chosen one' thing is almost by definition about 'unlikely' people; so once again The Phantom Menace really is the best Star Wars movie.

I should go to bed.