The Star Wars universe, fundamentally, intrinsically, does not act like anyone can use the Force given enough effort/willingness to be open it.
If that was all it took, just a determination to have the right mindset and learn, Palpatine would not have needed to target Force Sensitive children, in particular, and mark them out as threats against his reign. The Jedi would be taking in anyone who was willing to live the Jedi Path, not just individuals with a particular affinity for connecting to the energies of the universe that needed to be taught to manage that in a safe environment. There would be soooooo much, for lack of a better term, "cultural appropriation" with regards to Force practices, akin to casual yoga moms dabbling in its "spirituality" or Force lifting things for the health benefits.
You think the criminal underworld of the Star Wars universe would not be aaaaaaall over giving their every mook and low level grunt the ability to choke people out? You think there would not be so many more Dark Siders running around in the galaxy if the only barrier between a selfish greedy bastard and the ability to use the Force was a willingness and discipline to practice at it?
You could maybe, maybe, make an argument that the lack of widespread knowledge about the Force is the reason less people are able/willing to use it but that only works during the Dark Days when Palpatine has suppressed and genocided away almost all knowledge of the Force and its practioners. (Still doesn't completely work because common asshats like Motti still know enough to know that belief in the Force existed and was a thing in the past.) But the Republic has at least a thousand and in the EU several thousand years of history behind it, in which the Jedi have always been a constant presence that people have at least heard about, even if very few have actually met one. In ALL that time, you're telling me NO ONE figured out the Force Feats = Effort + Work + Willingness to do it (and sometimes natural talent) hack?!
Like. Even before George officially put it into canon that Force affinity has a physical, biological component, the entire expanded universe has acted, and continues to act, like the ability to connect to the Force is something you either have or you don't have. There is no going from Not Sensitive to Sensitive, no going from Can't Use The Force to Can Use The Force, unless you meet a minimum, measurable, tangible threshold.
And sorry, if Sabine had at all met that minimum threshold, someone would have known about it before the events of the Ahsoka show. It would not have taken 25 years and Ahsoka's super special magic discernment to figure it out. Conversely if she was so low level that she evaded detection all those years, then she was too low level to ever be able to touch the Force.
Thanks for coming to my frigging TED Talk oy.
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