His attempts to steer the project towards those conclusions, particularly after the multiple game-changers in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, prove to be an act of self-sabotage that ultimately sink the whole thing and destroy any kind of synchronicity in the entirety of the Sequel Trilogy.
The most significant issue the new blockbuster possesses is that it proves Abrams was too attached to his personal conclusions for the mysteries established in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
While it’s easy to comprehend the logic that Lucasfilm employed in hiring J.J. Abrams to make Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, that option should have been taken off the table as soon as the writer/director made the call not to come back for Star Wars: Episode VIII.