Doesn't mean we have to like it. And discussion forums are just the place for discussions why we don't like it. It amazes me that people try and shut down the people they don't agree with like this. Personally I think what they did to Luke was tragic and stupid, but you are right that it is canon. It is up to me whether I want to continue with the canon. For right now, I do. But a discussion forum about Star Wars is exactly where I can and should express my displeasure with the myriad of stupid plots, plot holes, and generally poor storytelling that I think went in to TLJ.
I do think it is a beautifully cinematic movie. I think the storyline came second to Johnson's first really big budget movie. "Gee whiz, look what I can do with all this money" supplanted "should I do this to the story?" It doesn't matter if it makes sense, Johnson wanted that massive self-sacrificing explosion (pilot the ship with a droid!), he wanted that beautiful red sand (5 minutes in a speeder at full speed but half dead Rose was carried back in the blink of an eye!). He wanted that beautiful casino planet (which was an entire plot sequence with no point). He wanted dramatic, no sound, Superwoman in space (which Leia had no training for)! In the end, I don't think it mattered much that the story didn't really hold together or come close to working in concert with the first movie in the sequel. He made it pretty, but he forgot the whole point of a Star Wars tentpole, middle of the franchise movie. It's to appeal to the most people, make the most money, and to be relatively mindless but fun adventure.
And this is exactly the place to talk about it. You don't have to agree, but trying to shut down the discussion because someone doesn't like it says more about that person than it does the people having a discussion.
