It wasn't made for you.
Some people always pedal this. It's rubbish because if it was made for kids it failed even harder.
I grew up on the OT, if they made it I had it. If it was on I watched it. When I went to school I played it. When I left school I read every expanded Universe novel.
When the prequels came out I watched them and apart from Attack of the Clones I enjoyed them. Revenge of the Sith is my sons favourite SW movie. It came out 4 years before he was born. For him and his age group and my slighter older nephews it had memorable characters, the merchandise sold and even fit in with the EU novels running alongside them.
The last trilogy didn't hit home with any age group. The OT fans detested it by and large, kids my sons age didn't give a stuff about the characters. I spend a large part of my life in a primary school and kids aren't playing it or talking about it. The toys didn't sell and you can't put it down to primary school kids being soured by Youtube. It just didn't resonate with them like Marvel Phase 1-3 did. They didn't look into in depth like the YouTube critics did and see how it whizzed all over SW lore. They were just poor films with terrible writing without the characters the prequel trilogy did to save it.
Yep Rey and Finn were terrible actors but Ford aside they weren't fantastic in the OT either. I mean Hamill is pretty dire but none of us cared. The story didn't make sense even in Empire in large parts and none of us picked it apart like the sequel trilogy because there was enough to love, we could ignore the shortcomings. There's almost nothing to love in the sequels, whether you are 50 or 5. They nuked the EU for the crud they have been churning out. (Don't get me wrong only about 10-20% of the EU was any good but at least in maintained some actual continuity with the SW universe).
The way to save this now is just to go all Marvel Spider-man and re-boot and go again. Admit it was an absolute disaster and start afresh. Maybe actually pick a time line miles away from what's been done and pick somewhere that's not a desert planet.
I hoped to never see Finn, Rey and Poe again.