Amazing, every word of what you just said, I agree with.
It will require great problem solving to fulfil your points about Rey’s arc, obviously the Fan-Editing category isn’t the place to discuss any poor story decisions made by the filmmakers and things like that, but I hope that through culminating ideas and experimentation with edits, we might be able to come up with something… it may be weak, it may be meaningless and pathetic, but it might even be fun just to give it a try… 😉