As messy as TROS is, I’m kind of glad that they went in this direction. My biggest complaint is simply that they didn’t do this from the beginning (e.g. episode 7). It’s been bugging me since 2015 that they’ve been calling it the “Skywalker saga”, yet there really weren’t any real connection to the previous six films other than that Ben/Kylo was related to the OT cast and that a few of them made appearances and cameos. The saga films, at least post PT, has been about Skywalkers in conflict with Palpatine i one way or another. Rey and Snoke simply wasn’t that interesting, nor consistent with the previous trilogies. Now I’m all for new stories separate from the Skywalker family, but as long as they’re part of the episodic films I think the focus should be Skywalker/Palpatine, and regardless of how messy and filled with retcons the ST is now, at least it’s consistent with the saga as far as overall lore in concerned.