Which Disney executive made the choice of pushing a trilogy forward without any sort of plan to stick to from the outset? Because whether that's Kennedy or someone else, that person probably deserves to be on the chopping block.
People can whine and argue about which of Abrams or Johnson shit the bed harder, but what jumps out to me is that the two of them are basically oil and water. Of course this relay race between the two of them would fall apart once both were given as much creative freedom as they were. They are clearly not at all interested in telling the same types of stories, and the choices of one ended up handicapping the other one from each hand-off IMO.
Star Wars definitely needed a Kevin Feige to at least plot a path for this story. Like at least the bare minimum of a framework of themes and goals for the writer-directors to actually work toward. It's kind of insane that this franchise has been handled as haphazardly as it has been.
