Edit - To give some personal context, I was thinking about the thread the other day where Snyder fans claimed that good movies are 4 hours long and then I saw this picture. Throw in the crap like baby yoda knockoffs and expanded universes and it's all so bad.
That's what fucks me up. That these fanbases can mobilize to harass women and people of color so much that they go on review sites. And then the filmmakers listen.
So in this instance, instead of having an episode 9 that works with the (admittedly bad) setup from the last movie, they make episode 8.5 that actively undoes the cool story elements in 8. That they catered to the racists makes it even worse.
Are you refusing to recognize The Rise of Skywalker's integer status? lol
They spent half the movie undoing things set up in episode 8. Integers are for closers.