Ubik
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The Skywalker angle is still there, he's just the bad guy again.Perhaps. I think my main issue with her hypothetically being a nobody is that she ends up feeling a bit extraneous to the new trilogy despite being the main character, insofar as they've very much continued to bill it as a continuation of the Skywalker saga. And compared to, say, the originals, you could argue she's a lot less central to the resolution of each film than Luke is. Kylo killing his dad is probably the proper big moment of the first one, and similarly in the second one Luke/Kylo ends up feeling like the genuine conclusion. Because those characters have a much more extensive history with each other than Rey does. If the Skywalkers were just bit-part players popping up occasionally then, yeah, I don't think it'd be an issue, but narratively I think it becomes a bit weird when you've very much got a series of films about the Skywalkers where the main character (and by extension Finn as well) isn't really all that important to said family. And with the title, they seem to be leaning a lot more heavily on the Skywalker family as opposed to leaving them behind.
It would be interesting if, as @caid mentioned above, the title is actually about the legend of Luke cementing itself at the same time his bloodline ceases to exist.