Angry nerds are constantly blaming Abrams and Johnson for Luke becoming a bitter old hermit living in exile a-la Obi-Wan or Yoda. But the original concept actually came from George Lucas himself. So if you're gonna blame someone, blame the creator. Looks like the sequels just simply borrowed from Lucas' original idea/concept art and expanded on it.
https://www.slashfilm.com/555123/geo...equel-trilogy/
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The new Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi book gives us one small peek at a George Lucas-approved Jedi Temple on the planet that later became known as Ahch-to.
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In the book, we learn that one of the first meetings to visualize The Force Awakens happened on January 16, 2013 at Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas himself.
Among the pieces presented at the meeting were portraits of an older Luke Skywalker training a new disciple named Kira (who was later renamed Rey). The idea was that, 30 years after the fall of the Empire, Luke had gone to a dark place and secluded himself in a Jedi temple on a new planet. The paintings show Luke meditating, reassessing his whole life.
Apparently, the initial plan for Star Wars: Episode 7 was that Luke, over the course of that movie, would rediscover his vitality and train this new Jedi. So basically, what we got from the Rey/Luke storyline in The Last Jedi was initially supposed to be the bones for George Lucas' Episode 7.
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