I would argue against the idea that most people disliked this movie. The reactions of a few personal friends doesn’t equal “most people”. Most of my friends liked it, but I don’t take that as evidence that most people liked it. RT has a very favorable audience score while Metacritic has a rather unfavorable one. So I wouldn’t presume to state so matter of factly how most people feel about this movie.

Also, over $1 billion box office doesn’t seem like very convincing evidence either. The fact that it did less than TLJ could have just as much to do with reactions to TLJ as it does with TROS.