Garbage end to a garbage trilogy

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2019)

I had major concerns way back when Disney first announced they'd bought the IP to Star Wars. I assumed they'd screw up Eps 7-9, but what I hadn't foreseen was that the new Disney SW movies would also denigrate the OT at the same time, rendering the story arc of Eps 4-6 virtually meaningless.
So what is it specifically that's made ROSW so uniquely bad? Is it the soulless characters? The dozens of frustrating plot holes? The high number of individual story lines which each go nowhere? The shoehorned overlay of an unnecessary diversity agenda? Lack of jeopardy in the phoned-in action scenes? The breaking of SW universe laws? Daisy Ridley's blandly limited acting ability? The blatant plagiarism of the major plotpoints from the OT? No - these aren't what made ROSW uniquely bad, since these horrors were also present in Eps 7&8 as well.
The things that made ROSW uniquely bad, included:

Much of the movie was focussed on mending the awfulness of TLJ. This greatly eroded any chance of the ROSW script flourishing in its own right.

ROSW tried too hard to be too big. With its overblown storyline, JJ gave the impression that he'd desperately attempted to make the movie outdo anything that had gone before in the whole saga eg a surprise fleet of 10,000 star destroying battleships, or Rey's godlike, death defying super hero powers. This approach was far too overblown and it's frenzied pace was all at the expense of developing real characters and real tension. This misplaced need to be bigger and better than what has gone before is a typical trait of tired franchises which have reached their end - think Die Hard 5, think Police Academy 3, think Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.