AliasMan02 said:
Those saying she never failed are selling her short. The first 19 years of her life were failure, after all. Kylo defeated her in their first encounter. She was rescued by Han, Finn, and Chewie and then again by Chewie.
We don't see any of that happen on screen though. We see her screaming after her family for like five seconds but we don't see any of her upbringing. We don't see her have to be rescued by Chewie in TLJ, she just appears on screen again being great at using the gun on the Falcon.
And she didn't really have to be rescued by Han, Finn and Chewie, she was doing a pretty good job of escaping on her own. She out-mind-forced Kylo and had already figured out she could plant thoughts (or whatever you want to call that) in stormtroopers. She'd even already acquired a weapon.
Another ten minutes and she'd have probably stolen a TIE fighter and been good to go.
She did 'lose' her first encounter with Kylo, but only because she didn't really know she had the force (or really even what the force is) yet so she didn't even know to try it.
I don't hate her character by any stretch, I think she's great, I just agree that it would make her big moments feel more earned if we got to actually see her struggle with stuff a little bit.