Canto Bight criticises liberal capitalism, the dominant belief system of most of the film's audience. This is not a flaw. The claim it should be deleted is hilarious, and betrays the ideology of the subject.

It's the flipside of 'rey is a mary sue.' People say that because it occurs to them as a mistake that a female character could be very naturally competent at something - it says more about them than the film.

The scenes depicting class issues, featuring the slave-children being recruited into the resistance, are core to the entire philosophy of star wars and show exactly what the resistance is even fighting for. Without scenes like this, Star Wars is a big army fighting a small army, but one is probably bad because they're called an empire. Good and bad can be safely abstracted away from having to think about how it relates to actual people, or the real-world implications of ideas, and get us back to the 'purity' of blue laser space man fighting red laser space man.

Much like the fan-edits of the prequels that attempt to erase young Anakin or Jar Jar, the need to remove aspects of stories deemed 'irrelevant' is revealing about what is deemed relevant. It's indicative of the problems with how they think about the world. I'm very dubious when people say they think a film would be improved if only they deleted the working class woman, the children, and the few scenes depicting the sort of things the resistance is actually trying to change. People want those scenes removed not because they add nothing, but because they understand exactly what they communicate, and they don't like what they communicate.

I'm not saying, either you like the scenes or you support child slavery or anything. But the star wars films, when they're good, function intensely well as criticisms of the things their audiences actually think and feel, and these kinds of criticism are a sign that TLJ has at the very least achieved this. It is at the very least, far better than TFA, which is like a film that has already been through the post-fan-edit wringer. No children, no working class people, no time spent seeing what the New Republic is actually like, a perfect good vs evil conflict scrubbed clean of anything valuable to say. It slots perfectly into Wookiepedia with very little effort. Fans love it. It's a safe and convenient addition to the vast Star Wars Brand Content library.

I wonder why so many of those fans don't like the film that tells you this thinking is dangerous, that doing good takes more than that, and that to really get anywhere you have to burn that library down.

If the fleet had jumped away before the bombing run, the dreadnaught would've still had most of its defenses disabled, and the fleet would've still had the bombers to make a run at it. It's possible the dreadnaught would've not made the same jump, but jumped back to a shipyard for repairs, with Snoke's taking its place anyway. I don't think you can definitely say that the Resistance fleet would've been in worse shape if not for the bomber run.

Even if the dreadnaught would've followed them and pose a bigger thread, Poe's decision was still irresponsible because he didn't know The First Order could track them at that point. His concern wasn't "what if they track us through hyperspace, something that's never been done before?" His concern was that they could take out a big military target. He wanted a flashy victory instead of what was most important at that moment, which was getting away and surviving to fight another day. Destroying a single dreadnaught means nothing if the entire Resistance is obliterated.