It's only news in that it shows how susceptible the media, or rather, the internet is to social media, in this case, one dude who saw something he didn't like, posted about it, and started a mini-whirlwind when news outlets started jumping on the story and making it into 'something'.
Thanks for posting about the Death Star. It bothers me that Disney scrapped the old continuity from the books and comics which at least offered different kinds of super-weapons and not just redoing the Death Star over and over. And they presented different enemies like the Yuuzhan Vong (which I think would've been pretty cool to see in live-action and more in fitting with the sequels darker and dreary take on our heroes) or at least different takes on the Sith like the One Sith or the Lost Tribe of Sith instead of Ren's whiny Vader wannabe. I would've even rather seen Abeloth than Ren or Snoke at this point. Jacen Solo, even when they screwed him up as Caedus, still was more interesting than Ren thus far.
I wonder when people are going to see the new sequels as just being a knock off the the original trilogy, but just with less interesting characters? I'll keep saying it, but at least the prequels were different-poorly executed-but still they were different enough to stand out from the original series and add to it. It remains to be seen what, if anything, the new sequels will add to the overall saga that is different or new. Right now, the best thing I can see them saying they've added is more diversity, and even that is questionable. I will give them that they've created a new trilogy around characters who are not white males, but as for how much development Finn, Poe, and soon to be Rose, will get remains to be seen.