Vuffi Ra would have been a nice nod to the Lando novels though.
Nah. Why recanonize elements people might actually care about?
Huh, I thought I was the only one who didn’t care about Thrawn.
Alright, so that’s one major element fanboys are in love with that was reinstated. Essentially everything else has been pointless minutiae.
There seems to be a conscious decision to not bring in characters. Characters carry the baggage of their past stories. Background minutiae is just that.
I do hope that in the future they’ll feel free to add in older characters. But then you’ll still get bitching. If this new droid was called Vuffi Ra, people would complain the he’s not supposed to be a she, and he’s supposed to have tentacles, etc. On the other hand they could have had Vuffi Ra in the film be just like in the books, but then your tying the hands of the filmmakers who wanted to create their own character, which was the whole point of the reboot anyway to avoid that.