to the people that are butthurt because " Rey took away from Luke’s story " …the sequel trilogy was never intended to be Luke’s story , even when George talked about as far back as interviews from the 1980s , he said if it got made it would be about passing the baton to the next generation and Luke would be in his 60s . Rey is that next generation .
Well, nobody expects the Sequel trilogy to have Luke as a main character. I mean, obviously Mark Hamill is getting old, and the Sequel trilogy should be about the next generation of Jedi with a new cast of main characters. I’m pretty sure everyone understands and expects this.
The specific complaint here (which I agree with) is not that the Sequels focus on new younger characters, but rather that the Sequels retroactively nullify the previous accomplishments of the older OT characters, when the Sequels should instead build upon those accomplishments with a new generation of characters.
So:
Good Story: Luke as an old man takes on the wise mentor role (like Kenobi in Episode 4), trains a new generation of Jedi, including Rey, who is the main character and focus of the story. Rey learns from Luke and goes on to have her own adventures and carry on the torch for the Jedi Order.
Bad Story: Luke as an old man trains a new generation of Jedi, but his entire Jedi school is destroyed in a fiery explosion, resetting the Galaxy back to an earlier state when all the Jedi were dead. (This is basically Order 66 2.0) Then Rey meets Luke but doesn’t really learn much from him, then Luke dies. Then Rey goes on to create a Jedi school that is not destroyed in a fiery explosion this time. This turns Luke’s story (from the OT) into a footnote, since there was no progression from Luke’s story to Rey’s story. Rather, Luke’s story is a dead end that leads nowhere, and Rey’s story becomes a replacement (not a progression or continuation) of Luke’s story.