Racer Cool, NFBisms’s bolded sentence encapsulates everything you write.

You’re just reexplaining the way you view Star Wars and what you like about it. Believe me, I understand the, but-it’s-inconsistent argument. I think “dissonant” best describes what you (me, and many others) see.

There are many here who feel TLJ not is not inconsistent and explain their reasoning. But they can also accept, as NFBism seems to, that there is a dissonance. And some will like that dissonance.