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>>kathleen kennedy let a giggly little internet troll have full creative control of the most expensive franchise in human history
I don't actually think he did have full creative control, simply because TLJ is littered with small script issues that could easily have been spotted and fixed by peer review and weren't. I'm not talking about colossal full retard moments like hyperspace ramming, but little details like finn and rose being able to traverse the galaxy in a shuttle without being spotted, despite the whole plot being about them desperately needing to escape and being willing to sacrifice their ships to do so.
This is the sort of thing that a round of script revision ought to have spotted and devised a handwave to. You'd throw in a line justifying why it happened, even if it's not particularly convincing, just to keep suspension of disbelief up. It's not alone, either. Not even close.

This, to me, indicates that the script never so much as saw an editor, possibly not even for copy edits. If that's the case, it's highly possible that it was a mandated script that was considered off limits to editors. Given that TLJ most encompasses the seething contempt lucasfilm has for the IP as a whole, I don't think it's outside the realms off possibility.
It would certainly explain why it's the only movie that never had a script leak; almost nobody but the actors with traceable scripts ever saw them.