@SilverWook

Yeah, I don’t mind the design changes myself either. But I am really curious if these new Tie’s can do hyperspace. To be frank, I’d rather they couldn’t since their design seemed inherently incapable of storing a hyperdrive compared to X-Wing class ships.

@ZkinandBonez

Well to be fair, the holochess bit is pretty small scale to begin with.
When it comes to creatures interacting with characters, that’s when it matters. It’s hard for me to describe it. To me, there tends to be this consistent look to creatures in Star Wars. Humanoid alien creatures blend in, and more off the wall creatures are shown little of themselves which creates a nice illusion of seeming real but at the same time, even if they’re gimmicky, you can’t see the full thing (A New Hope garbage compactor, Empire’s Wampa scene pre-SE, and RotJ Sarlacc pre-SE/rancor). So in TFA, that particular creature comes across as extreme cheese when you see this hyper active slimy squid monster comically drag away Finn in a MiB like way.

However, this is all to preference understandably. It isn’t really that much of a big deal anyway since it bares little impact on the film overall.