Last Jedi does not follow a story arc that is ment to last

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2017)

I liked the movie at first, but the longer I think about the movie the more central issues bother me.
Right after the movie I thought it was a decent star wars movie and in fact it is a decent movie and quite a few scenes were just awesome. I don't have an issue with the jokes, I don't have an issue with the Poe and Rose plot. The movie as quite a few very good references to the old movies,
so "what the heck do I want more"?
But the movie made one rather big mistake. Rey.
I am a Star Wars fan as all of you, not better or worse, nor do I think I know it all better. Not at all.
In recent years (I am 35 now) I had the chance to understand what George Lucas really did; since I became a father and got my little twins. I started very early reading them German fairy tales. And that is when I really understood what it meant that star wars is not just a sci fi flic, but I really understood what Lucas did. Of course, I have read it all etc. etc. yada, yada, but I never really understood it until I read more and more of the old fairy tales to my kids.
It's all about (and I know that you already know this) the struggle and failure of the protagonist. And I know this sounds lame, but the extend of how much a protagonist has to fail until a story becomes something more than a short success but outlasts generations is the point of star wars. The story arc of the old IV, V, VI is a tale about failure and overcoming failure in a space fairy tale / opera. What does it mean:
Look at Luke. Luke hat to fail and suffer the worst. He lost his stepparents right at the start, he lost Obi-Wan, a friend and mentor, and he realized that using the force is training and hard work. All that in EP IV. And it continued to be a major struggle in the Empire strikes back, following the major fail on Dagobah and culminates with the loss of his hand and the realization that his father is a mass murderer. All that makes the character believable, you want him so desperately to get some happiness that it almost hurts, so EP VI is the big climax where he can finally find some peace.
This is a major part of star wars. The essence you could say. The struggle, the work you have to put into something to master it, the failure every one of us can identify with, but the hope that you can overcome everything no matter the issues you face.
The prequels took on the same story arc with Anakin only there you have to see it from EP I to VI. It's basically the same only worse. He lost everything before in the end finding the love of his son which saves him.
Take Rey on the other hand. Rey never really faced a setback, never faced the truly hard but character defining moments in the movies, yeah of course she also was a junk trader yada, yada, but you don't feel it, because you don't see it in the way that Luke lost is aunt and uncle, seeing them as burned skeletons, or Anakin who sees the death of his wife in a vision etc.
Reys character development is simply not present. Yes she gets more abilities from one moment to the other like a D&D level upgrade in the movie, but this doesn't resemble the struggles needed to make a story last for generations.
What exactly bothers the people concerning the Luke story in "Last Jedi"? The thing is: Luke already suffered, he already hat is story arc brought to a finish, is character didn't need a development anymore. Instead Luke suffered again and Rey just to be honest is now the Wesley Crusher of the Jedi. The know it all, literally. That is what makes the movie feel "cheap" not ment to last. I can't resemble, I can't feel Rey, I can't feel her struggle, I can't see her character development, but this movie should have made her the last hope of the galaxy and she in fact is. She should have been made the last Jedi. But she is not. She is the girl who got everything without training.
And the issue is: The next movie doesn't have the time to fix it all. The new trilogy didn't follow the fairy tale script every other star wars movie has (even the prequels), so this makes the movie lack behind and it will get worse the more you think about it.