Who cares if they did though? The movie was still good and the character is still interesting.
For you, sure, as someone said to me.
I find the movie just entertaining, but with a distinct no-risk-marketing-product flavour that makes it unwatchable next to SW & TESB. The character, I didn’t find him particularly interesting in TFA. VIII can correct this, or can make it worse depending on how repetitive they will be of the scheme that rules the original trilogy.
FTFM