Agree shoehorned is the wrong way to put it, but these side characters really have only had about the same development going into the third film as maybe Jabba or Greedo from the OT, I want to connect, but I feel like I’m seeing more concepts of characters than full bodied established ones, I really need to see IX to declare one way or the other on a lot of the new characters.
I mean there’s only so much time and so many characters. Seems reasonable that some would end up with smaller roles and less development (like Greedo and Jabba).