I love how you lay out the logic of that approach for Rey’s story. You’re right, TFA outlines that Luke failed to rebuild the Jedi, so it would’ve made sense to see Rey succeed at that. There is the implication that she will, but you can say the same for Luke at the end of ROTJ.

One thing I liked about Colin Trevorrow’s Duel of the Fates script was how it ended with Rey and company building a new home for future Jedi.

Maybe it would’ve been too much, but it could’ve been fun to have had a significant time skip with Episode IX, and we see that Rey has already begun training new Jedi. And you could’ve had a fun climax where the new Jedi fight the Knights of Ren.

I think one issue would’ve been introducing several new characters, let alone giving enough screen time to existing characters, like Finn and Poe. Even though Finn and Poe do have their own stories, they could’ve had them both start down the Jedi path too. I think people wanted to see Finn become a Jedi, so you could’ve had more hints to them both being Force-sensitive. And maybe Rey succeeds where Luke doesn’t because she doesn’t try to rebuild the Jedi are her own, but with the help of her friends. They do it together. And you could’ve contrasted Rey’s relationship with her friends and Kylo’s relationship with the Knights of Ren. Maybe there is infighting amongst the Knights, or they’re planning to usurp Kylo. We could see how the Knights of Ren are just like the Sith, despite trying to be different. And with the new Jedi, we could see how they might function differently than the old Jedi, and how they hopefully won’t repeat the same mistakes as them.

A lot of potential ideas there.