tere are good explanations for most of them anyway.
There are explanations now that we’ve had ages to ponder them. Conversely, the novelization for TLJ isn’t even out yet.
The TFA novel straight up explains how the Starkiller beam could destroy a planet on the other side of the galaxy from where the base itself is located. It just depends on it you want to accept that explanation.
That is to say, you like the movie or you don’t, and that’s your choice. But holding ST and OT up to different yard sticks isn’t exactly fair.
I think Wook just tossed out some of the ideas from the top of his head. Or maybe he has spent years pondering them. That would be interesting. I don’t look to the novelizations for anything anyway.
I don’t do novelizations or visual dictionaries, not that I think it should matter to enjoy a film. Starkiller felt like a ridiculous rehash. On numerous levels it just didn’t work for me. You’re right that if one has a desire just about anything could be acceptable. Midi-chlorians, for example, aren’t as bad as some people understood them. But I still find it a terrible concept that broke with how the Force was previously conceived.