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It was hinted at twice, and his experience as a a pilot was with a T-16 shooting animals for fun like some kind of insane person. That hardly translates to 'familiarity with a military craft and able to fly in a combat mission ten minutes after arriving on Yavin'. I can drive a car but I'm not going to be able to race in a NASCAR event just because I know how to use a steering wheel. I don't have an issue with Luke flying an X-Wing because he's the protagonist and Star Wars is a fairy tale. And by that same token I can buy a nine year old being able to single handedly take down the enemy ship that ends the battle on Naboo just because he's got a high amount of magic bugs in his blood and I buy that a 19 year old survivalist and scavenger, summoned by the Force itself to answer the call to action (which she denies twice outright), can use the Force to get herself out of a torture chair. 

There's been this common thought since 2015 that Rey using a mind trick without years and years of training makes her unfathomably and unfairly strong when the text of the movie shows that to be untrue. The only difference between Rey using a mind trick and Anakin using precognitive sight to podrace is that one of them did it consciously. Anakin gets a pass because he's 'the chosen one' but Rey doesn't get a pass because someone being strong in the Force shouldn't be able to use the Force once without training? Do people think Broom Kid is bullshit because he used the Force without training?