Yeah, you wouldn’t want to emphasize Poe potentially surviving too much.

When Finn and Poe reunite, he says, “I got thrown from the crash, I woke up at night, not you, no ship, nothing!”

So does that mean Poe didn’t wake up until several hours later after the ship had already sank into the sand? Or could he just not see the smoke at night and wandered off?

Though if the First Order became one-track minded when they found Finn’s track and forgot about Poe, it actually might help explain how he survived and didn’t get recaptured. You just wonder how the didn’t find Poe’s parachute either.