Man what if Snoke was just like a meat puppet for palpatine that he possessed to run shit from a distance or something to avoid any more vader chasm moments
Maybe not word for word micromanagement but still a loose form of mind control or brain washing
And maybe putting that kind of dark side pressure on a guy physically fucks him up over time which is why he looks like acid bath adam scott
The dark side equivalent of living forever being just straight up snatching bodies seems like a thing, the question about snoke being possessed palpatine though begs the question of why Snoke or Kylo Ren never claimed to be Sith.
I'm thinking Snoke is Snoke. And I'm thinking the influence that Palpatine had may actually be zero.
It could actually be pretty simple--with Snoke and Luke dead, Palpatine could see it as safe to execute...whatever his plans might be now. Or he sees an opportunity or something.