Yeah, and to expand on that, when Finn asks Poe how he knows how to hotwire a speeder, to me it makes sense that someone in a paramilitary organization like the Resistance would be able to do that. It only makes sense that Finn is surprised by Poe’s hotwiring if it was previously established that Poe was from the by-the-book New Republic. If Poe’s history was unknown, there would be no reason for Finn to be surprised that a guy in the rough and tumble Resistance had some shady connections.
In short, the writers took the assumed canon of Poe’s backstory as a springboard for subverting that canon for surprise value, but by negating the canon they negated the whole reason for the subversion, like a sort of canon ouroboros.