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There's derangement all around on the internet. We're all a bunch of weirdos.
My brother doesn't go on social media at all (he's a wise man) and so isn't influenced by internet culture war bullshit one way or another. I once asked him what he thought about The Last Jedi. He didn't like it. Why? It was boring.
Most people just want entertaining and fun movies. What's wrong with that? The internet would have you believe that movies are supposed to be in your face about pushing cultural changes. But most of the time they fail to do this, and only succeed in generating a lot of views and money for culture warriors. In the end they only help the opposition to the changes they're promoting because pushing those messages in lazy ways feels lame and boring to audiences. Then the culture warriors twist it so that a movie that's merely lame and boring is something more sinister.
What you see on the internet is not actually representative of what most people think. I think we should assume Disney does a lot of market research and isn't only looking at internet arguments when deciding how to market movies. Look at the trailers for Rise of Skywalker we can see the results of that research, My brother's opinion was probably prominent. People don't hate strong women in movies, they don't hate Rey as the culture warriors would have you believe. They didn't like that Rey didn't do anything in TLJ and they wanted to see her do some, you know, action stuff in an action adventure movie.
The culture war shit hurts entertainment regardless of which side it comes from. Instead of having a Star Wars trilogy with three solid action adventure entries, we have one in the middle that claims in it's marketing to be about strong women but actually relegates women to support roles if the movie is considered from the context of an action adventure movie. The final entry has a woman taking on a large role in action scenes but is hated by both sides of the culture wars. Which makes everyone taking either side in this look like a bunch of idiots to anyone that's just going to a Star Wars movie looking for fun action adventure.
TL;DR: Y'all are a bunch of deranged idiots just trying to spite the "other side" and ruining the fun for everyone else.
If you don't like the direction of a movie or show, you can just watch something else. There is an entire caustic critic industry based around complaining about Disney. It is sad.