The most annoying part of people saying 8 was the worst is that one of their common arguments was, “it left nothing for JJ to work with!” Screw that, I could write a better story than “Oh no, Rian killed Snoke, my Palpatine replacement! Now what do I do?! Oh I know, I’ll bring back Palpatine to replace my Palpatine replacement, and then I can do my remake of episode 6.”
For instance as an actual ending focusing on the one good character; he’s the big bad of episode 9, but somehow gets his redemption moment at the end. The whole galaxy still hates him as space Hitler, but he roams the galaxy anonymously doing good deeds here and there. The whole ‘wandering ronin with a dark past’ thing, since Lucas started off with samurai/western tropes.
And Rey dies or something, I don’t know, no one cares about her anyway.
But no, JJ just says, “He Vader, Vader sacrifice self to save Luke/Rey from Palpatine. Durrrrrrrr”