Full of HUGE, distracting plot holes

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2019)

Major Spoilers follow:
Just like with The Last Jedi, these are thoughts I had as I watched the movie just a little while ago. As usual, it was the first showing at my local theater. I've been to every first showing since the re-releases of the original trilogy, and have seen all the original trilogy on at least their opening weekends. I'm a fan, needless to say...
1.) The whole "force yank" where Kylo is able to grab things from across the galaxy opens a huge plot hole. If he can do that and seemingly intrude on Rey's thoughts at any time, why not just check in on her until she has the beacon and then snatch it? Or, let her get the dagger and grab that. Furthermore, does this mean Vader could have snatched the Death Star plans fron Leia from across the galaxy, since he knew she had them? Just like with Purplo Hairdoo's hyperspace ramming in TLJ, this opens up huge plot holes in this movie and possibly others. It seems like this new ability was done just to set up the "lightsaber yank" during the fight with Palpatine. Slightly better writing of that fight scene and of the detection of the forces on the desert planet, and there would be no plot holes.
2.) So Jedi and Sith can actually hurt one another from across the galaxy without knowing each other's location. Why not just do that to Palpatine? Remember, Ren had no knowledge of Palpatine's plan to direct his spirit into whoever killed him. Furthermore, couldn't Rey have just done the same since she also didn't know about Palpatine's motives either? This ability kind of renders the whole invasion of the Sith world superfluous. It also torpedoes other movies. Why couldn't Palpatine do this to Luke in ESB or RotJ upon learning that Luke wouldn't turn?
3.) It takes a helmet hitting the floor to give away Rey's location to Ren while they fight? Why? Shouldn't her footsteps as they're fighting do that? Or is Vader's helmet magic?
4.) The first 15 minutes or so jumped around a lot. I get why they did it, but maybe they could have edited the movie a bit differently to make it smoother.
5.) BB-8 is an astromech droid just like R2. Couldn't C-3PO just back up his data to him? I like that they made political correctness a hindrance - that was funny - but it seems like a "droidsmith" should be able to back up his data somehow.
6.) They made Poe not seem like a blithering idiot...until they did. "Sir, we could use the Purple Hairdoo hyperspace ram against the uber fleet."
"No, let's kill as many of our crew as possible and fight the bad guys in close with ships and blasters and horses." Enough friendly ships showed up to almost block out the sky. Given the effectiveness of the Hairdoo ram, couldn't a fraction of Lando's fleet crewed wih droids absolutely slaughter the Star Destroyers? "But Kenny, Poe didn't know how many would get there." Okay, perhaps Poe and friends fight until they know whether or not they will have sacrificial ships. Just send Lando out to look for them as he gets help. Now I'm hoping some of you doubters get how that maneuver torpedoed both previous and future entries in the franchise, RoS notwithstanding.
7.) "Sir, they're riding horse thingies along the hull and attacking us. Looks like ground forces."
"Okay, roll the ship 90 degrees to port and continue ascent. Let's not make it easy for them." Or, given the importance of that ship, just tell the other ships to hold position while you climb to an altitude where the boarding party suffocates.
8.) This is minor but I thought jumping away from a fight in the SW universe means safety. I thought in ANH, we learned tracking in hyperspace needs a beacon on the tracked ship. But then again, Vader managed to track the Tantive IV, so who knows?
9.) The whole invasion/attack of the Sith planet seemed so contrived. It seems like they could have had a better story than the navigation tower subplot. For example, how about "they don't keep all the SD's powered on at once. We've got to hit their transport hubs and take out the troop transports before they can get out to their ships." Or, perhaps the ships' engines need a while to power up. This makes waaaaay more sense than the Last Order building thousands of SD's, but only one antennna capable of relaying critical navigation information.
10.) They make a point of saying that large ships need navigational antenna support in order to take off from the Sith world. But, why doesn't the main ship? Why are they able to navigate safely and thus lead the other ships out? One sentence would have cleared that up.
11.) Luke, being dead, is immortal now and can catch a lightsaber. But he can't be bothered to help in the fight against Palpatine. WTF? Seems like he would be the perfect weapon, given he can't die, can carry a lightsaber, and has no body to hold Palpatine's spirit.
12.) Ren has duplicate ships and he took the one without the beacon to fight on the desert planet. Or did he retrieve the beacon from the flaming wreckage and put it in his backup ship?
13.) Rey can nearly pull down an escaping military troop transport using telekinesis but she can't levitate a small boat (or herself) across dangerous waves. Seriously?
14.) No shields in the atmosphere. Why? Haven't we seen shields in atmosphere with capital ships in the prequels and with Hoth base? I could've sworn those droid ships had them at Geonossis (sp?) and, of course, the Gungans used shields. I thought about the proximity of the SD's being the reason, but given how close shielded ships maneuver in battle in the rest of the movies, this can't be why.
15.) Why did Ren disappear immediately upon dying but Rey didn't? Why did Leia's body linger for so long after she died? Obi-Wan and Yoda disappeared immediately but Qui-Gonn and others did not. Why the variance? Is it relative power levels or something biological.
16.) They torpedoed the end of RotJ with the whole "force energy transfer" crap. "Dad, you're dying from Palpatine's force lightning. Here's some force energy to heal you." Replace "Dad" with "Rey" and you have the ending of RoS. I imagine Luke would have loved to have saved his Dad.
17.) Stupidity of the battle plot aside, the actual ship-to-ship fighting itself was pretty good.
18.) I loved seeing Lando and Wedge in action again.
19.) I couldn't make out what the Sith followers were chanting. Also, are they all dead? Why did Rey kill them? That seemed a little incongruous with the Jedi ideals. Or, was it accidental when Palpatine "detonated?" This again begs the question as to whether or not they're all dead.
20.) Shielded or unshielded, were there enough friendlies to kill the SD's? Also, since we don't know why there were no shield in atmosphere, does that mean the attackers were also unshielded? Depending on the explanation, the answer could be "yes." In which case, they would have been easy pickings for the literally tens of thousands of TIE fighters.
21.) The sandmobiles driven by stormtroopers made no sense in the context of the SW universe. How about speeder bikes like in RotJ? The good guys have airspeeders, so why in the crap would you limit yourself to tracked transport when there is better, ubiquitous technology eliminating the need for Boba Fett-style backpacks and ridiculous catapulting sandmobiles? "Oh gosh, they have tracked vehicles, what do we do? Oh I know, let's just hover our vehicles across that gorge on this world brimming with gorges, and eliminate half of the threat chasing us." Sheesh...
Given the (again) epic plotholes, I have to give this movie a "D-." It's slightly less bad than TLJ's grade of "F" but it's slightly better than TPM.
Kenny