Solo got killed coming out just a few months after The Last Jedi and into cinemas around the same time as Avengers Infinity War.
True, it was really weird timing, especially as there wasn't a SW film scheduled for later that year. The hype over Infinity War hadn't subsided by the time it came out, and also Deadpool 2 was out just a week earlier.
I remember the months following Last Jedi well, the threats of boycotts over Disney Star Wars etc. As I said at the time, regardless of your personal opinion over the movie itself, having a fanbase so divided and reacting in such a way couldn't remotely be seen as a positive for the franchise moving forward.
My take on Solo is still that it's fine. It's an okay movie that I have no dislike of, but am unlikely to ever watch again. The coolest bits were the brief confirmation in canon of the Imperial Army as a thing rather that the Empire (and all its derivatives) just being made up of 100% Stormtroopers, 100% of the time. Seeing different parts of the galaxy was cool too, but the Mandalorian has come along and done the same, so it's less special now.
On the subject of Han, I've read both of the earlier Solo book trilogies and they're more interesting, for anyone interested in those advenures, synopses can be found online:
The Han Solo Adventures published in 1979/80 (so before ESB) and take place in non-Imperial parts of the galaxy such as the Corporate Sector. Feature a droid called Bollux (seriously).
The Han Solo Trilogy published 1997/98 and fit around the earlier stories rather than replacing them. Han's love interest Bria ends up as one of the Rebels who stole the Death Star plans (in one of the many different stories of how that happened).
Solo was fine but the "how Han got his name" scene was the single worst thing to ever happen in the history of cinema.
Personally I can't get over "This is how we win, Finn". Everything about that scene defies rational explanation in or out of lore, and portrays Rose as both incompetent and obsessively creepy. I get that Rose lost her sister and so doesn't want to lose anyone else close to her, but her actions literally and obviously would have doomed ALL the people close to her had multiple others not bailed her out (in events she had no idea were about to transpire).