My issue with TFA is that it could have felt like the OT without ripping every single story beat from the OT.
A story about Luke building the new temple and training Kylo would have at least been more interesting than a string of interchangeable events we’ve seen before tied together by “coincidences”.

Finn’s story was the only original part of the whole film, everything else is exactly the same or a very slight variation of what’s come before.

There’s actually a lot I like about TFA, but I can’t look past how obvious a safe-player it was.