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The ST was still about the Skywalker family either way since Ben was a major character in it. I think it would have set up a meaningful difference between him and Rey with him coming from an important family of powerful force users if she didn't. So I liked when that seemed to be the case in TLJ and didn't like when it was undone in the next movie.

I've heard the argument that they had to explain how she can be so powerful with the force, and that's fine but the explanation didn't have to be she's related to a powerful force user. It's fictional space magic. They could have come up with any number of other explanations and I'd have preferred one that had the force manifest her because of some quality of her as a person and not just she inherited it from her grandfather.