I think having Yoda and Palpatine duel each other with lightsabers was a missed opportunity to show off new powerful Force abilities, perhaps learned only by those two great masters.

Agreed. Should’ve been like a shonen fight. They sorta touched on it throwing senate pods but didn’t go as far as they should have.

Is that unpopular? Felt like it was a pretty popular opinion among the prequel crowd.

Anything post CW S6 is technically not Lucas approved, and yet everyone still goes on and on about how much they love The Mandalorian.