Cool. Still doesn’t work for me, but guess what: like you said someone else came in behind that creator and we have to adjust what it is. That doesn’t mean the original intention is gone or meaningless, and nothing Disney has done has taken away the prequel trilogy being about Anakin’s downfall, or the original trilogy being about his redemption.

Rise of Skywalker did contradict what was happening in Last Jedi, and that’s fine. I think it’s a weaker story and those changes are weaker than what we had before, but the changes happened. Pretending that intention changed is ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as saying we should ignore a writer’s or director’s intention all together.

It was a retcon, happens a lot. Each Director or showrunner has full power to do what they want so long as they’re in charge of the story. Abrams couldn’t be overruled by Johnson or even the Story Group, just as Filoni and Rau can’t be overruled by novelists, comic writers and artists, or the Story Group. That doesn’t mean the original intention disappears, it means that we have to reconcile it, or hope that newer stories reconcile it.

Your defences of this change still don’t work for me, as they make Rey’s character far shallower and less of an autonomous character in my opinion. To me, it takes away her agency. You disagree, and that’s fine. Someone asked me to come out in my 2¢, and I have. It was a terrible choice to make that change in her character, but it is canon and I hope that new stories help rectify those mistakes and bring back some of the depth she had that was robbed from us.