JEDIT: Now I almost want to do a mockup of the shot. Curse you, RL!
Do it! Make the sacrifice!
Also, the first shot in the scene of Rey climbing up the Death Star ruins, there’s an old, rusty Imperial Shuttle amongst the wreckage, almost in center frame. So you could actually set up how Ben gets there visually if you match both the shuttle in the wreckage and the shuttle he flies in.
I think they wanted that visual of a TIE Fighter and X-Wing side-by-side. I mean, it’s definitely a nerdy thing to nitpick, but I guess they could say there were some TIEs that had hyperdrives by the Battle of Endor.