Thought it was pretty good , but as you said , there w'ere too many plot twists that didn't fit in.
Johnson will be making a new Trilogy of his own and I'm going to watch it :).
But I still hope Abrams will correct the mistakes in Episode 9 :) .
I'm glad that Abrams is coming back. The Force Awakens was a good balance between the old and new (apart from the plot). I think things would have gone smoother if they had the same team working on all three. Or if they had not discarded George Lucas' original story treatments....
From what I've heard, what happened to the original treatments was from conflicting ideologies with how to continue Star Wars. As far as I know, all Star Wars was in the mind of George Lucas was just a story. No doubt that was reinforced by the difficulty in seeing your creation from any perspective other than the creator. Despite being essentially a lifestyle for so many diehard fans, he would have written it in such a way that there would be no more important stories to tell, so he would implement the idea of the Whills as the embodiment of the Force, which it also feeds on (I know it sounds confusingly cannibalistic, but that galaxy far, far away is a fantasy world where science fiction technology is the norm). The best case scenario I would see is that whoever at Disney crafted the Lucasfilm Story Group from within and was looking at the treatments and said "These are good, but we want Star Wars to be here to stay. What we'll do is give these to the directors and their co-writers (of which Rian Johnson had none which might explain some things) and see what they make of them that the open endedness of endings past (the endings of both previous trilogies [say what you want about the prequels, but I personally loved them]) might be retained." I suppose we have to wait until Abrams closes the Skywalker Saga and the trilogy he started in December.