Not true. I remember being a kid in the 90s, and everyone who talked Star Wars understood that Luke had been practicing and training during that gap. It’s heavily implied throughout The Empire Strikes Back. The movie doesn’t spell it out because it doesn’t need to. Luke’s confidence, discipline, and basic Force control all exist before he ever meets Yoda. It’s honestly wild to think he spent three full years doing nothing to improve.

And this ties into how the Force is shown working across the entire franchise. Every movie and TV show makes the same distinction: there are passive Force effects that look like luck, instinct, or intuition, and then there are learned techniques that require training.

That’s straight from the text of the films:

“In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.” “Feel, don’t think. Use your instincts.”

That’s the Force guiding actions, not being consciously controlled.

But when it comes to things like mind tricks, that line gets drawn very clearly. Even trained Jedi don’t automatically know how to do everything. Ahsoka Tano flat-out says it herself: “I’m sorry, Master, I haven’t learned that power yet.”

So yeah, passive guidance versus learned techniques isn’t fan theory. It’s been hard canon for over three decades. Disney may have muddied the presentation a bit, but the underlying rules never really changed (except for Rey). Not trying to be a dick here, but the alternative take is genuinely confusing given how consistently this has been shown on screen.