To be fair to those defending the films, some of those critics (at least those that get discussed on ERA) are incredibly trite. Apparently they've been debating for several dozens of pages and many days about Hyperspace Tracking or some shit ? That would be as asinine as overanalyzing the diet of Rocinante in Don Quixote to hold it as a major flaw to the story.
I don't get too deep into nerdy detail. That also seems to be more of a Trek nerdom thing.
Someone had a decent post about how the concept isn't consistent in the same film. which is less a nerd science issue and more a writing issue. The purpose of the Hyperspace Tracking is to create narrative tension via a ticking clock. This is standard film writing stuff. However, when your film shows various people leaving and returning to the ship after hyperspace jumps, and sending messages while hyerspacing, then power of your tension building starts to wear off because the masterful trick of your villian seems not so impressive.
To which people respond, "well it's all just silly fantasy so what does it matter?" Except consistent rule logic is a basic block of any world building fiction and if you don't do it then you don't pass the class. It's the same as inconsistent character behavior in story telling. You create an imaginary place that requires the moorinf of your audience in it via consistencies, even when you are asking them to buy into power, magic or science fiction they have no experience with.
It's really just respecting how the brain works. Our brains don't shut off because we're flying in space in a X-Wing. They don't shut off when Luke lifts the X-Wing with this "force". They actually tally up the information and glitch up a bit when info conflicts.
We're told Santa is real and believe it. We then run into more Christmas stories, more Santa movies, and expereince more Christmas with families. We tally up information until we start to see information conflict and glitch up. The amount of leeway we give magic is inverse to the amount of information we have upon that magic.
I already regret typing this all out.
