Yeah, both organizing a massive resistance movement and having other countries jump in and save people are things that involve a far-from-inevitable combination of luck and skill.

I know what you mean about the Mockingjay fantasy. And like you said, the story was very much not that, it was about a costly revolution with flawed and less-than-trustworthy leaders using a troubled teenager as propaganda and her suffering horribly in multiple ways, but a lot of people act like it's actually possible and feasible to be propaganda!Katniss.