Right, and it’s something the crawl can help imply as well. Like has Ascendant has it now, you can say how flames of rebellion are burning across the galaxy. You also could say something about maintaining control is stretching their resources thin. It isn’t necessary, but it is a simple way to set up that the First Order needs more resources to stay in power.

EDIT: Just talking freely, but this is something that makes me wish JJ and Terrio had kept the Kuat sequence from the beginning of the Duel of the Fates script. Even though they just steal a destroyer in that sequence, if our heroes would’ve succeeded and had destroyed Kuat Drive Yards, it would’ve set up the First Order needing to compensate for that loss of resources. It also would’ve been a nice way to give the whole Canto Bight subplot a little more consequence (since our heroes would’ve been tearing down the war machine, essentially).