Rewatching TLJ multiple times reveals my biggest problem with the film, in that some of the dialogue is laughably on the nose, such as when the distress call goes out and no one answers and Leia says "We fought to the end, but the spark is out. The galaxy has lost all hope." It would be like if the end of TFA when Starkiller base is imploding and turning into a star that one of the characters said "Look, what was once darkness is now turning into light. We have our hope back!"
Oh rad, I didn't know that! I assumed he would have been in the evacuation battle. To whoever I told he was "dead as fuck," I apologize.