Top 3? Nah. I’m struggling to even say it’s better than Force Awakens! Just so much isn’t explained. There’s a whole movie's worth of plot between TLJ and ROS that isn’t accounted for!
Yes, it IS a brilliant restoration of everything that went wrong in TLJ. But that frankly isn’t enough to redeem the Disney trilogy, which has been botched right from the start and was sooo far gone that even ROS has trouble fully convincing in its ambitious. Yes, of course it’s a much better film than TLJ, but it has so much juggling to do to try and undo all of that sith that, in a major way, it can’t be its own film and, therefore, a *properly* fitting end to the saga.
And, again, they could have told this story so much better over the three films, and even told this specific movie's plot better. So many missed opportunities, especially right at the end, when plot contrivances overtook making actual sense!
Much more to say once some more folks have caught up...!
Totally! In the end, I think we would all have been better off just living with the Extended Universe and never getting another film. But given that we got what we got with the last two films, I was positively thrilled with TRoS. It may age no better than the previous two (or the prequels for that matter), but I sure enjoyed it. Of course, I said that after TFA too, and it has not aged well for me. (Way too much of a lift of ANH for it to qualify as a Top 3 for me at this point.) In the final analysis, I doubt that I will disagree with many of your criticisms; the only difference being that I was able to look past them and enjoy the film a whole lot more. 
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