

Especially if that speculation is making people angry anger leads to hate, and all that! I mean more it's easier and simpler to objectively look at actions, rather than speculate about motives. As you say, the issue was Finn spent two films chasing Rey yelling "Rey!" basically. Same with the gaming version of The Last Jedi that shall remain nameless, still think and have to have faith that promoting diversity is a good thing, it's just been badly executed. The more people try and go the negative way and guess at Palpatine esque grand conspiracy machinations from Kathleen Kennedy, mentally it's harder for me to get on board with the royal you. It's positive analysis applying theory to media.

The sequels as a whole were just a mess, and I only find TFA midly enjoyable, but that's mostly because it's a reskin of ANH. George Lucas already had concrete ideas about the prequel trilogy before he started filming A New Hope. They just wrote it on a film-by-film basis, partially based on the reaction of the audience. Additionally, there was no script, there was no plan. The main problems with the sequels is that they allowed different directors with completely different visions to alternate the directing.
