I feel a little more context about what’s happening in this world when picking up the story after 30 years, and after a trilogy set in the past that gave us a great deal of context, would have gone a long way.
I don’t disagree but I feel like the impact on the story on the whole was pretty minimal, whereas some people think it broke the movies or some shit.
World building is overrated. It’s one of the many things that killed TROS.
What world building was in Rise of Skywalker? Or do you mean in The Rise of Skywalker novelisation?
There’s plenty of world building. Every scene adds a new element to the lore. It’s suffocating. Whether they explain how those elements make sense or not doesn’t matter.