@judaspete Most of the people who claim to be military and talk Holdo say she's completely unbelievable and the military doesn't work that way. If they want to argue that the people at the top of the resistance are incompetent then that's largely another insult toward the OT heroes as it was formed by them.

That aside my main point about the plot of TLJ vs the other movies is that you sort of have to nitpick to find things that are problems in the OT. With TLJ the whole plot revolves around things that don't make sense. From the first order side of things they are utterly incompetent. If anyone was competent none of the opening scene would have happened and everyone on the resistance side would be dead. After the "chase" begins it entirely relies on the first order somehow building their ships slower than equivalent ships in the past, only tracking one ship, and only doing it from one of their own with no redundancy at all. It relies on them not just jumping a ship in front of the resistance because well they're utterly incompetent. And of course sneaking on board their ship relied on them just not paying attention to system glitches. Take a moment and contrast to the galactic empire, the only time they "covertly" got through their systems was when the emperor let them to lay a trap. Well I guess you could also say the escape from the death star but again they let them go to track them. Of course the whole thing also relies on the first order believing the resistance wouldn't try to do anything to survive and just sit there and wait to die. They had not one bit of contingency planning.

From the resistance side it relies on them taking the hyperdrive out of ships that already had them for no good reason. They then require an amazingly incompetent admiral and people who for some reason stay in ships just to die for whatever reason. I won't even get into the whole side quest which makes no sense at all. The whole plan relies on the first order being dumb enough not to scan for ships at all. Of course in the face of a mutiny she was basically willing to let everyone get killed allowing Poe to take over the ship and doom them all.

It's all pure plot convenience. I haven't even touched on the minor, mostly not plot relevant things like the whole arms dealer idiocy, the hyperspace ramming, and of course force ghosts that can affect the physical world or that suddenly the force requires no training. The point is the movie can't stand up to the smallest bit of brain power and the more you think about it the more problems appear. That's why people don't like the movie, they sit there scratching their head saying it makes no sense and on top of that it's a massive insult to the lore, world building, and internal consistency of Star Wars. The original trilogy just doesn't have this kind of structure problem where it relies entirely on things that make no sense at all.