blaming JJ for the rise of the Skywalker

Exactly. Rian Johnson singlehandedly destroyed the Star Wars sequel trilogy with his ridiculous movie, and JJ had to cleanup after. However, the Force Awakens was not without its own issues as well.

This is why Disney should have had Timothy Zahn and Kevin J Anderson in to write the sequel trilogy BEFORE filming actually happened, so there could be a nice wide coherent story for all three movies, instead of a bunch of individual movies loaded with plot holes, horrible characters and settings, and more questions than answers.

George's often criticized Prequel Trilogy is a masterpiece compared to the sequel trilogy.

The last Jedi is by far the worst star wars movie.

Blaming Rian Johnson for Rise of Skywalker is like your boss blaming the coworker that threw up everywhere after you gave them food poisoning.

Yes, Rian Johnson 'shit the bed' on TLJ; but TFA (JJ and Kennedy) was the poison that led to it.

I don't think the groundwork was well-laid with The Force Awakens, either. It retconned the Rebellion's victory, backtracked on Han's character development (maybe even regressed him past where he started), and put into place a bunch of mystery boxes that would be almost impossible to develop into something that makes sense.

In and of itself the movie was fun, but it had all these fractures that turned into big cracks in The Last Jedi (which was awful) and then full-blown earthquake/exposed fault lines in Rise of Skywalker.