I think it's just different strokes for different folks. I totally want to see Rey kicking ass all over the galaxy, but more than that I want to see her forming a healthy and strong emotional connection with someone(s), whether that's romantic or platonic. Saving the galaxy is important, but I care so deeply about her already, and I want to see her happy. Because, let's face it, she's had such a shitty isolated life - I want to see her making her own found family. Sure, that doesn't have to mean romance. But it doesn't have to not mean romance, if that makes sense.

I think the problem is that women are usually love interests in men's stories, and so that gets tiring. But that doesn't have to mean women can't have love in their own stories. It shouldn't be one or the other - love interest or completely without romance. There should be a balance, and personally I'd like to see that balance done well, especially in something as big as Star Wars. Ongoing love stories have been a part of both previous trilogies, so I think it would be cool to see a female character as central to the storyline and having her own arc but also being allowed to find love, in the way that a male character is allowed to have his own arc but also find love.