It just didn't feel like a Star Wars movie. Sure it had lightsabers and x-wings but...
The sequel trilogy should have had a single director from start to finish, if JJ had been in control of 8 and 9 from the beginning I think they would have been very different films.
IX while not as bad as TLJ felt extremely rushed and the brief addressing of the "holdo maneuver" made me cringe hard. Force Awakens tried to set up plot points, TLJ ripped them down. Rise of Skywalker was stuck trying to continue a story that didn't exist.
TLJ set nothing up, it left a complete blank slate by wiping out the resistance and it killed off a major villain that should have been important to the trilogies plot.
Snoke being alive, and revealed to have been palpatine all along at the end of IX could have worked but without Snoke alive we start IX and suddenly, oh there's Palpatine ok.
But all the blame can't be laid on TLJ. Star Destroyers with Planet Killing Weapons? Are you telling me that the empire had to build a space station the size of a moon, but now we can have 100's of small star destroyers with the same capability? Out of nowhere? WTF?
All logic and sensibility is thrown out of the window to achieve unnecessary escalation such as the holdo maneuever and the planet destroying fleet that completely break the universe.
