It’s truly mind boggling to me that someone could have two problems with this movie, and one of them is that a specific kind of TIE fighter doesn’t have hyperdrive. Like, you realize how ridiculous that sounds right?
The Space Shuttle Atlantis uncouples from the ISS at the conclusion of another successful mission. On the other side of the space station, a VW Beetle from Russia fires its retro rockets on approach.
Not the same thing. Star Wars isn’t real life, and you don’t need to read an obscure EU book to know that a VW Beetle can’t fly in space. I’m not bothered by it at all, and I love the imagery of an X-Wing and a TIE fighter parked next to each other. It really helps illustrate Rey and Kylo coming together.
Obi-wan says that this TIE fighter is specifically short range in the original movie, no EU required.
But that implies there are also long range fighters. It was only the EU that established none of the Imperial fighters can jump to lightspeed, so I don’t see the problem. And like I said before, I think the idea of “plot holes” as an objective measure of quality is dumb in general.
Could it not be as simple as Ben Solo returning to his Star Destroyer, post Death Star fight, in the only available working craft he could find. When the fleet then jumps to Exegol, he sneaks off the Star Destroyer in the same craft to help Rey and kill Palpatine. This requires no prototype fighter and no hand waving. To me it is a logical choice Ben is likely to have made.