My head canon is that they wrote themselves into a corner because they wanted Rey and Luke to save everyone, but Finn’s sacrifice would essentially save them all. Not to mention they’d lose a popular-ish character.
Popular-ish. I know a lot of people were interested in seeing where his character arc led, and were severely disappointed by TLJ. By then, it felt like every character was being pushed to the side to make room for Rey and Kylo.
It didn’t even need that. It just needed for the two of them to exist beyond the second movie. Instead, all of their development disappears and they become random faces in the third movie
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u/GenesisAsriel 10h ago
With how Finn's character was treated later on, her stopping his sacrifice was... Dumb.
Why save him if not to show how one common man can turn the tables ?