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LOL I kept thinking the same shit during the movie too.. like "Did Rian Johnson negotiate for a cut of the merchandise sales?"
the jedi temple caretakers, porgs, the entire Not-Hoth sequence, it all just felt like setup for toys/merchandise that he could reap the benefits of...
Unfortunately, these were another one of Rian Johnson's jokes to himself at the expense of the audience. They're his metaphor for longtime or hardcore Star Wars fans that go to conventions and stuff. The Jedi Caretakers have "protected the Jedi ways since they were created" and like the hardcore fans, the caretakers whine and bitch and scurry about when someone pokes a hole in a building on the island or changes something.
They're ugly little frog nun things (nuns=virgins) and it's no accident that Rey doesn't apologize when she knocks down an ancient statue and it rolls down and smashes the caretakers' (fans') wheelbarrow full of dumb old Jedi shit.
The double punch line is that these fans will go out and buy figurines of these creatures made to mock them. Gotcha!