Along with postmodernism TLJ also exhibits a disturbing glibness in its storytelling.
Why is Holdo so ridiculously secretive? It doesn’t matter, she just is!
Who is Snoke and how did he rise to such power? Who cares, he’s boring, let’s kill him!
And Canto Bight is described as a place where the people lord it over the poor and oppressed, but instead of using this to further the plot – say, by having Rose & Finn fall under suspicion & be exposed as Resistance spies after they feed a beggar – we get the asinine “shuttle parkers” gag.