I’m not sure you can have a recon when there was no overarching story.
Also, Im not really sure where the third movie was supposed to go anyways. There wasn’t really any “Resistance” left and Ben’s goal was to “rule the galaxy” which is kinda open-ended.
… But Snoke was a puppet of Palpatine. Sheev had some backup clones to replace him with just in case
That was a retcon that Abrams introduced at the last minute.
I’m not sure you can have a recon when there was no overarching story.
Also, Im not really sure where the third movie was supposed to go anyways. There wasn’t really any “Resistance” left and Ben’s goal was to “rule the galaxy” which is kinda open-ended.