Maybe this is all a very fair explanation after all; we just need a Vader voice over : “There’s Reva, set the lightsaber for stun”.
I’m pretty sure season 2 is gonna be a checklist to explain every bit of inconcistency of season 1, which has been a SW trend lately along with stagging other spin off shows: trying to fix the previous show. We’ll hear of the “Reva maneuver” in season 2 I guess.