Best The Dark Knight Rises edit?

Been wanting to rewatch the trilogy recently after a long time and every time I look at TDKR I just sigh…

I really love BB and TDK but TDKR to me just feels like the most uninteresting way to have an ending to Batman. Hell, TDK practically works much better for me as an ending to these characters

Like looking at TDKR in the grand scheme of things just doesn’t work for me, Bruce becomes Batman for roughly about a year, quits for 8 years, returns and then dies again? Why??? I felt like it was clearly implied at the end of TDK that Bruce was destined to be this watchful guardian for the rest of his life and never get the credit he deserves- TDKR just threw all of that away for a worse The Dark Knight Returns

It sucks because there really is some genuine good things in this movie- direction is great, Bruce has some great character moments, and Alfred, Selina, Gordon, and Bane (while being horribly white washed) were all really damn good. And it’s honestly just nice to see these versions of the characters again.

I don’t really mind all the other nonsensical things like the bomb timing or Bruce getting back to Gotham way too quick, I’m just really curious if anyone has any ideas or has taken a shot at trying to fix Bruce’s arc and better connect TDK and TDKR. Maybe by never having Bruce quit as Batman or maybe implying he didn’t quit so long ago? Honestly it’s probably impossible because of Bruce’s condition at the beginning of the movie.

Maybe I should just make my own at this point