potential spoilers
Looks like Kilo is getting his own Tie-Advanced Fighter, and a cape inspired in Vader’s… I guess they’ll give him a Super Star First-Order-which-renders-this-totally-different Destroyer as well.
Even forgiving TFA for its recycled elements due to a clear insecurity on market potential, having this strategy still going in VIII feels like pure lazyness to me. I hope to be wrong.
And we’re still arguing on the visual lazyness of keeping the same designs with (symplifying) different colour schemes, while the justification for that, which is the deliberately conservative decission they took on the plot to make the FO have the upper hand in apparent funding and tech (the question that gives name to this thread) remains and will certainly remain unanswered because they simply applied a no-innovation policy.