Sorry to have to tell you this, but that stuff’s technically canon.
Everyone has their own canon. If something in Star Wars is fundamentally opposed to the spirit of the original movies, I consider it to be an usurper and illegitimate. YMMV
And my problems with the movie are a lot deeper than that. When it comes to the new characters like Rey, there is no character development. And the plot is nonsensical. And the villains are idiots. Then there are all of the sequences that remind me of the factory in Attack of the Clones. The Force Awakens, flawed as it is, was much better than this one, it was just awful to watch.