I just don’t get how going out of our way to make TLJ worse, without improving TROS at all, makes any sense. It’s competely kneecapping the narrative core of a story, the big twist reveal at the film’s climax, just to make some completely unnecessary unexplained lore mumbo jumbo the tiniest bit more palatable.

It’s like the Force knew that allowing a dyad between these two individuals was going to result in bringing balance back.

That’s just as big of an out-of-movie assumption as anything else that’s been brought up. It takes no more effort to assume that Palps wasn’t literally controlling Snoke as a meat puppet and that the voices line was more about how he’s influenced Kylo’s life, or that Snoke bridging their minds was only the first step in forming the dyad and that Palpatine knowing they can Skype isn’t the same as Palpatine knowing he can eat their souls.

Frankly a lot of this stuff can come down to Occam’s Razor on the audience’s part. If Snoke bridging their minds and Palpatine not knowing they’re a dyad are both established fact, which they are, then the logical conclusion an audience member must come to is that either Palpatine didn’t have 1:1 control over Snoke or that a “dyad” has a deeper aspect to it than just the mind link.