I see the ST and its directors as the kids who grew up watching the OT being given the chance later as adults to re-enact their favorite scenes from the original but with ostensibly new but basically derivative characters. After all we know the main target audience for these types of movies so I'm fine with characters being caricatures. But then that means they've got to nail down the basics but when looking at it more holistically, an oversight of vision and identity for this trilogy has cost the license dearly. When it rains, it pours.
However at the risk of putting myself at odds with most of the opinions held by folk on here and out, I've always thought that Rian Johnson was/is probably the best SW will ever get in terms of the screenwriter-director (apart from the G-man himself). He's made his certain idiosyncrasies very obvious in a way that's almost admirable in the worst way possible.
I'm still open to a RJ trilogy and I think people should start directing their apprehension and YouTube six hour video essays at JJ's TROS and the trilogy written by the Game of Thrones' Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
And yeah, an X-Wing figure regardless of who is long overdue.