Can I ask why TLJ is hated so much?
a.) Luke's return to the screen was underwhleming. He was a hermit that drank weird green milk. He's one of the greatest cinematic heroes of all time, and was reduced to a slapstick bit.
b.) the Leia Poppins scene really made no sense. It was in there as a dumb fakeout.
c.) The Leia/Poe/Holdo storyline was so contrived. If any of them had slightly below average communication skills, that whole sideplot wouldn't have been necessary. They all were on the same side, wanted the same thing, yet because they had to keep secrets from each other, there had to be a coup.
d.) The Finn/Rose casino scene might be as bad as anything in the prequels. Besides the wonky CGI, the character motivations made no sense. Case in point: after Rose and Finn tore up the city, they still had (to their knowledge) failed their mission. They should've thought that they just doomed the galaxy to subjugation to the First Order. So they justify it by saying "well we made them hurt a little and freed some animals, so that makes it worth it". No, dipshits, dooming the galaxy is not fixed by causing some slight property damage that be fixed in a week and freeing some animals that will be recaptured in a few hours, all on a planet so rich it won't even remember you were there. Just so dumb.
As much as I didn't like the Luke storyline, it didn't ruin the movie for me. But they obviously had no idea what to do with the rest of the characters, so they got insanely dumb side plots. Maddening.
e.) Kylo Ren, in both movies, has been built up to be a major badass, then ended the movie looking like a bafoon. It's like they took the cool, menacing parts of Vader in the original trilogy but meshed it with whiny douchiness of Anakin from the prequels. He gets easily defeated in both movies. Hard to take him seriously after all the trouble they went through to build him up.
And it's a shame because his lightsaber duels in both movies have been really well done. I think the throne room scene in TLJ might be my favorite scene of Eps 7 and 8. But then they just shit on his character.
f.) Snoke? Just a diversion. Instead the big bad is the guy we keep making look like a chump.
edit - In the end, it's pretty subjective. Nothing wrong with liking TLJ. These are my problems with it, but there are definitely scenes/parts that I liked.