It’s not actually even the “it sucks” stuff that’s getting to me (that’s easy enough to ignore), it’s the “civil discourse”. No matter what the topic, it somehow always ends up with people grappling about their feelings RE: TLJ.
What I see happening time and again is that some troll will jump into a conversation related to but not strictly “about” some element of TLJ and offer up a glib blanket criticism of the entire film. Then some well-meaning but misguided dope will attempt to engage with the troll and post a rebuttal. Then the folks who’re negative on the film but aren’t generally trolls about it see this as an invitation to pile on their own grievances, and the whole thing spins into the same tired TLJ debate for pages and pages before getting back on track (if it ever does). If this is helpful to you, fine, more power to you. But I finished processing the movie a while ago and it’s just tedious as all hell to see everything inevitably getting sucked down that path and I frankly don’t need it.
This isn’t only a criticism of this place either, I’ve stepped back from Star Wars stuff on Twitter and elsewhere too. Talking about Star Wars on the Internet feels like a chore across the board, and I’m sure that has at least as much to do with me as it does the discourse. I know I’ll be happy to jump back in when we’re done battling for the soul of this thing, but until then I know where I stand and hanging around watching everyone else sort out and re-sort out their own feelings ad infinitum feels frustrating and unproductive to me, and ultimately just isn’t at all fun or interesting.