Korra suffered a lot to be the Avatar, even more so than Aang – which made her a much realer & richer character.
This will also likely limit the new Avatar in more significant ways than just losing out on potential council (which was something that Aang or Korra didn’t always heed completely either way ...
The rapidly expanding technological aspects of Korra’s world were a sharp contrast to Aang’s. It makes total sense that non-benders, who were particularly shafted in the Hundred Year War ...