They weren’t made by committee, but they were made by someone who doesn’t care much for an auteur’s vision, and just likes dangling keys in front of the audience.
Abrams has never been a man with a vision. TFA plays out like a madlibs prompt for a story more than a story in itself, and TRoS plays out like a really bad attempt to fill in those blanks by someone who very clearly had no intention of ever doing so.