The thing is Screams, without checking canonical references outside of the movie (which the majority of the audience outside of hardcore fans would not do) there is no indication as to how much actual time has passed and therefor it allows yourself to determine and make this up for yourself based on what you are shown in the movie and therefore it automatically creates it’s own inspecific supporting logic due to understanding enough time (however much that might be per individual) has passed for that to be realistic.

In the case of TFA and TLJ, the events themselves and the obvious fact that TLJ carries on directly after TFA with no time jump literally puts a time frame around the events of both movies to something like 1-2 weeks, maybe a month at best (but that is a big stretch) having passed from Rey thinking the Force is a myth to twice defeating a Sith trained by both Luke Skywalker and more powerful than the Emperor of old Snoke. She guns down any fighter in her way as she expertly pilots a ship she has only fixed in the past and lifts a literal couple or more tonne of rocks. All this in the space of what I approximate to be the passing of 1.5 weeks.

There is so much clearly different between the two examples that they cannot be so simply compared in saying that people give Rey grief…

Val