I’d normally agree, but that approach would have been better served if the Trilogy had been mapped out from the outset, where such things might have had the opportunity to be placed more organically across not only TLJ but also TFA.

I personally think that retroactively placing the burden solely on TLJ to accomodate the diverted narrative demonstrated by the story of TROS and then dumping all that new set up, hard and fast into TLJ where it never existed previously risks it all just coming off as a mess of ideas?

…almost like TROS itself(?)

I think Poppa carefully curating what scenes can accommodate these hints and then just gently massaging them in is definitely a wiser, more effective approach?