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 affect how new movies get made. Rise of Skywalker course corrected just for them.
Rise of Skywalker was never going to be good considering it was meant to wrap up a trilogy that they were doing on the fly, with different directors and no communication between films. Also, JJ Abrams did my boy Rian dirty.
True. It was a mess from the get go, but it felt clear to me they made concessions to a racist fanbase when they benched Rose.