I can’t help thinking that RJ followed the characters natural arc from where Abrams left them in TFA and did a superb job of putting them through second act tortures. It seems that what people aren’t liking is the setup that Abrams saddled the ST with rather than what RJ did with it. The jounts and acrs are just the continuation of their TFA journies. I found TFA to be very flawed and as I anslize the complains I keep finding the root cause lies in the last movie. Luke was left in exile with little explanation. We get an explanation that fits with the little TFA provided. Rey’s jouney is also a continuation. Nothing comes any easier in this film than the last but this time we dig into her parents issues. Poe, originally fated to die, now is groomed to be the new leader. Finn finally learns to adopt a cause snd stop running. And this part of the story is all about failure and how to grow past it. Nearly every character is faced with failure. They all grow from it. We can quibble about liking how each arc played out, but the arcs are there are they tie directly to the last film.