“There’s no doubt the First Order control the galaxy.”
Dre, that’s not what we see in the two movies thus far. The First Order seem to have a serious Arsenal but we don’t ever see any garrisons or colonial troops on any planets like we did so frequently with the Empire.
In fact the FO don’t have a presence on any of the planets we see in the ST, they turn up and attack like raiders then depart.
It’s what RJ put into the crawl and dialogue. If he didn’t want the viewer to have the impression, that the FO is an unstoppable force, he wouldn’t have put it in.