Let me start by saying that clearly no single approach is going to satisfy everyone.
Having said that, I feel that you’re being overly confident in an argument that doesn’t stand up to its own measures. You talk of “sense” but how does it make any “sense” if only 2 weeks have passed in the story when the actors (particularly Mark Hamill) have clearly aged years? In this regard a longer passage of time makes more “sense”.
Maybe some people would believe that it makes more sense that:
- It might take some time to find a single object in a rather large galaxy.
At the end of ESB they agreed to meet at a rendezvous point on Tatooine. They knew where Han was.