best to worst now?

I do not know her other work so cannot judge her overall as an actress but she was not a good fit for an action orientated role and did not fit the (bad) script. But no matter who played the role with over the top demonstrations of her being 'awesome' such as the scene you describeb it was going to be cringe. They just tried too hard to show her off and it came across so forced.

Exactly, it is not just her being overpowered but she is smug about it too. Like they were going out of the way to make her look extra noble but also wanted to make it look like she was not ambitious; the result of this meant she literally has not one discernible personality characteristic. Who is she as a person? What are her goals, motivations, aims, and what reason does she have for her seemingly benevolent actions? We actually never know other than she wants to know who she is and where she fits in? Well she should have had that figured out by the end of her being a teenager; which might have been more acceptable but by the end of the 1st film there still should have been an arc.

There are so many great strong female character leads, the latest one that I loved was Nebula in Endgame, she was freaking awesome and I think is now my favorite Marvel character. It is so frustrating to hear the 'you just don't like strong female characters' fallacy.

oh yeah there was just so much nonsensical things that had to happen to put people in certain places; I mean they make the joke about Finn being in 'sanitation'. That does not even make sense, how would he even know about the technical specification of the Death Star 3 as a janitor and why the heck would they re-assign him to the elite ground assault unit under Kylo? So many dumb scenes, actually almost every scene i can think of had something wrong with it.

What makes a film is great is a combination of many things. The quality of the movie itself when all merits are considered, story qualities characters plots settings as well as production value. Then the critical response and audience response and how well those can hold up to scrutiny. But one of the most important elements is how it stands up to the test of time. As far as I can see TFA failed multiple categories of story telling despite it high production value
Audience and critics response to it initially was great but as far as I can see it is not standing the test of time. Even with the last movie in the trilogy it launched in theaters right now. It will be remembered as the beginning of the end of Star Wars. At least as far as I can see
Where am I wrong in any of this assessment?