TV’s Frink said:
Did the sand swallowing the Tie Fighter bother you because you missed it being referenced earlier, or because the desert doesn’t conform to the way you expect deserts to behave?
This didn’t bother me. For one, I thought Poe Dameron booby-trapped the TIE fighter to disappear and hide their tracks. Maybe I was wrong about that, I don’t know, but it didn’t take me out of the story when I saw it. There were many other things that did, however.