Generally agree about the time lock tied in with the beacon.
However.
They have 70 bajillion souped up Star Destroyers hanging out there.
You destroy the beacon…um…they build another one. Or two. Just to be safe.
Unless they’re out of building resouces from crafting 70 bajillion souped up Star Destroyers.That’s a plot hole written by JJ Abrams and Chris Terrio… luckily Palpatine explodes or something and all the ships blow up too? It’s kinda unclear… They do blow up a few by destroying the canons, but the majority just… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
They get stuck without the navigation signal from the capital ship.
That’s the beauty of simply removing the timer. The plot, and motivation for the resistance is to destroy the navigation stuff. That’s the main goal. Of course we can all argue “but why wouldn’t they build another navigation system or other reason.” That’s all moot since the movie/plot tells us what the heroes need to do, even if it doesn’t make sense. It’s there. Just use it.
Plus, again another major issue I have is this movie is saying all these major events occurs
In 16 hours, in which revenge of the Sith lasted the time padme was pregnant and gave birth. Let that sink in for a moment.
REMOVE THE TIMER.