It may be counterproductive at this point to scapegoat Rey’s character deficiencies on gender when virtually every character I can think of in the ST is under-written. It’s almost too clean of an excuse when the overarching plot of the trilogy amounted to practically nothing. The overall meta is the worse issue for me, Disney is caught between selling Star Wars to the next generation and to the previous one at the same time, they knew they were making an active choice to soft reboot with TFA, and they had their reasons although now in hindsight it was a clear case of short term over long term gain. This nostalgia trap has not been escaped, even the more successful series rely on a status quo, locked in a time period of predetermined circumstances maintaining familiar iconography. Not that there isn’t something worthwhile about spinoffs enriching those eras, but it can’t be the only thing, it’s frustrating to spend so much time ultimately going in circles. That’s why I’d like a future for Rey, I’d like ANY future for this saga at all, I want my story back, we’ve been so starved for genuine progression and world building on par with the prior trilogies hardly anyone even believes in the potential of true sequels, it’s all been narrowed to a galaxy of stormtroopers, inquisitors, the same 4 species of aliens, x-wings/tie fighters and lightly tweaked lightsabers and droids if we’re lucky. The ST even backed out on anything close to new territory like the oracle in TROS. So the sky is the limit, unfortunately that takes risk and imagination.