It may have been that the fugitive doctor had been laying low in England since the 60's (or even 70's, whenever the actual police boxes were functional the last time around), but all these explanations are a bit of a stretch and require too much mental gymnastics on the casual viewers' part. And this is actually the least problematic part of the whole timeless child thingy 😝

That's the situation in a nutshell. People can argue the timeless child removes the restriction on regeneration and allows a greater freedom for introducing future doctors, but it was already done with the extra regeneration cycle given in trenzalore, and the limit was even somewhat removed, as Rassilon ranted in Hell Bent "how many regenerations did we give you?" plus, it can always be done by pulling a similar trick, except that Chibnall destroyed Gallifrey yet again... Oh well...

I was going to mention the same, apparently no one professionally involved in this (i.e the current production team, as well as the media reporters/reviewers who write about Doctor who) actually bothered to watch the classic series. I barely watched one season of the Hartnell era, and a handful of episodes afterwards, and I'm no expert, but it's right there, in the very first doctor who story to have ever been released (I think it was in the second or third episode)

I thought the Rey connection was something the Web article writer(s) came up with, wherever I read that story, it being RTD's own point of view makes more sense. The star wars / doctor who relation is deeper than you may have thought; r2d2 (not RTD2 😁) was inspired by Daleks for one thing, and in turn, at least in the revival era, star wars influenced several aspects of Doctor who. How Ruby got her jedi abilities may as well be touched upon in the season, although her days of companionship are over, it is confirmed that she'll continue to appear (maybe as a sidekick companion? 😁 Or, considering her force powers, as a master companion to the newcomer padawan companion 😝) or, a further twist that Ruby's mother wasn't so ordinary, after all, she was dressed like a Jedi/Sith, wasn't she? 😁