I can only speak for myself but I feel like the problem is that they didn't have to introduce a damsel for Lara to save in order to motivate her in her own origin story in the first place. If I remember correctly, her origin story in the classics was that she survived a plane crash and had to survive on her own before being found which was essentially the 'spark' for her. Yet in the reboot, it feels like a lot of the major aspects of her origins or even her iconic imagery is tied to characters we don't have a reason to care about: from her dad being the reason she's even an archeologist (even though her parents disowned her doing it in the classics), to Roth being the source of her iconic dual pistols, etc. I personally liked the early concepts of TR13 aka
Ascension where it seemed to be more of a solo adventure on the island personally.
RIP this Lara.