I’m not familiar with the prequels, so I guess it’s lost on me as to why that’s not subtle. Neither here nor there. I’ll never see them, so it doesn’t matter.
IDK what Stardust’s talking about when it comes to Palpatine’s hubris or whatever. Maybe the prequels are less clean cut than I thought. This is when Yoda feels he lost the fight against Palpatine (not just the duel but also the wider conflict), the visual metaphor of the cloak falling is just to represent the fall of the Jedi. Metaphorically it marks the point in time where the Jedi lost. Not that deep, but cool that this idea is reinforced visually.