Artificially tearing them apart like that served no purpose other than to deprive fans of something special that can now never be rectified.
I mean you must know that’s just not true. Why would they do something with the sole purpose of annoying fans? Obviously the reason is that it didn’t fit the story they were telling. Whether you like that story or not is another matter, but let’s at least be honest here.
The only reason it was done was so that JJ could jam Luke Skywalker into his damnable “mystery box.” It is the be all, end all of his entire storytelling career. It is his crutch that plagues nearly every one of Bad Robot’s productions. I’m not saying he purposefully did it to spite fans, I’m saying that was the natural outcome of his poor storytelling.