Steve Rogers Was Never Perfect As Captain America

Whether he died or not, he removed himself from his fellow Avengers by staying in his alternate timeline and growing old. He's generations removed, and he's probably not in any shape to be an Avenger any more.

The thing Walker needs to realize is that Rogers as Cap didn't care what people thought. Walker does and he's prickly about it, leading to some things Rogers never would have done. Don't get distracted, keep your eye on the issue. Walker also gives me the vibe that he's partially in this for himself. He isn't as cocky as he presents, we saw that in Ep. 2, but he does present that way and he plays it through. Sam's failing here is modesty, and I'm betting some of it is the same as Walker's problem - what will people think? Modesty is usually built on the mores of the local society (which has gotten exponentially larger due to the internet) and so is inexorably tied to social conditioning, but to be a one-off hero is to ignore and rise above the crowd and go your own way. Be a leader, not a follower. That means not caring what others think, just keeping to your moral compass.

Yeah, people tend to speak too glowingly about the dead. My friend and I talk about our fathers, Saint William and Saint Edmond. Thing is, why speak of the wrongs they've done now that they can't do them any more? Not talking about people like Hitler or Stalin, people who ruined millions of lives, but the ordinary Joe who lived his or her life as well as they could.