Having Holdo/internal dissent within the rebels (or whatever they were called this time around) could have been interesting. She just had a bad plan, kept it secret from basically everyone else on a flimsy premise and with little explanation, and whatever the hell Poe was going to do wasn't a good plan either.
A rewrite that could have made the film a lot more interesting would be if, instead of the hyperspace tracker being the result of some new technology, it was instead the work of a spy. So Holdo can't tell anyone what's going on, and Poe takes it upon himself to go on a mole hunt (possibly because his friend Finn has been implicated and he wants to clear his name). None of the Star Wars films have ever really dealt with spies, so it would have been a new scenario for the franchise which would also have been nice.
Having Holdo/internal dissent within the rebels (or whatever they were called this time around) could have been interesting. She just had a bad plan, kept it secret from basically everyone else on a flimsy premise and with little explanation, and whatever the hell Poe was going to do wasn't a good plan either.
A rewrite that could have made the film a lot more interesting would be if, instead of the hyperspace tracker being the result of some new technology, it was instead the work of a spy. So Holdo can't tell anyone what's going on, and Poe takes it upon himself to go on a mole hunt (possibly because his friend Finn has been implicated and he wants to clear his name). None of the Star Wars films have ever really dealt with spies, so it would have been a new scenario for the franchise which would also have been nice.