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.
There is still a twist there. The twist is that Snoke admits he was the one making Kylo seem redeemable. So Rey fell for a trap.
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.
There is no explanation given for how Anakin Skywalker becomes the “Chosen One” and gets all of his midichlorians. Of course, in Hal’s edits there are no midichlorians, but the whole Chosen One shtick still stands. These sorts of things that involve a strange aspect of the Force do not necessarily need to be given an explanation like “Snoke did it”.
It’s why George Lucas opted to not have Palpatine admit that he was involved in the conception of Anakin (which was in the original script if you didn’t know). It doesn’t need to be explained.