I can much easier accept the tunnel in the ice cave collapsing as a result of it being bombarded by laser fire or that R2 and 3PO could get picked up by the same Jawas considering that they were both traveling on foot as it were within several hours of one another, than I could buy Leia flying through space. Your examples are much more plausible than what Leia did in that scene. By a long shot. I can suspend my disbelief even for a story with space wizards but if they are just going to have people doing the impossible to that degree then I tend to mentally check out. It's like watching Bugs Bunny. For all of the fanciful things in Star Wars there has to be SOME sense of danger otherwise where is the tension that will keep me watching. Leia survived that incident with no injuries save being unconscious for a few hours and having a bandage on her head. She's a cartoon at that point. Why should I care? She can survive anything. Holdo was a poor substitute for Leia anyway.
Why is Rey capable of doing this and no other Jedi? So for a thousand generations Jedi trained for their entire lives to master the Force and Rey can just absorb all this knowledge through one fleeting interaction with a half trained dark side user? C'mon. That undermines the established history of the entire order because no one else has been able to do that. Regardless of the fact that it could lead to attachment, no Jedi or Sith ever thought to even attempt it? Because if I were a Sith I would have gone around downloading all kind of Sith knowledge and amassing enough power to take over the galaxy. You see how this is a problem? These ideas BEG the question, why has no one else done it before now?
There is nothing to suggest that the Force is suddenly more powerful than it ever was. It's an impersonal energy field. If there is life in this galaxy then the Force is present. Pure and simple. The Force flowing through the galaxy stronger than ever. What does that even mean? Either it's there or it's not.
These ideas may sound neat on the surface but when you really think about them, no matter how many books or ancillary material try to legitimize them, they are just poorly thought out. It's often the result of having an interesting concept and working on overdrive to justify it when it actually detracts from your story. Continuity is important. You can't establish ideas in earlier parts of your story only to change them to make for a neat scene without having your audience get annoyed with you. It's like everyone follows in George's footsteps and changes concepts as long as it looks cool with no regard to how it affects the overall story. It's irritating beyond belief. Rather than flesh something out based on earlier chapters of the story they just change them because they can't come up with something that fits within the same context and develop it to have new meaning.
I had lots of ideas I thought would make for a cool scene in my book but ultimately if I have to come up with all kinds of explanations that bog down the pace or contradict the main focus of the story, they get cut. It's the difference between mediocre writing and good writing.
Maybe you don't expect much from your stories and that's a matter of personal taste, but if they insist on making more stories with these characters then I expect that they would make good creative choices. I feel that they dropped the ball.
Though this was in another thread I felt that it applies to this topic too:
Inquisitor Peregrinus
If you think internal consistency in a fictional universe is "optional", or whatever, you're as bad as Braga. 
You have to be mindful of what came before, whether you agree with it or not, for that universe to have any perceived "reality" to it. Can't just ignore it to blithely tell whatever stories you want to tell, or it ends up a disjointed mess no one cares about. Oh, wait...
I consider one of the hallmarks of a good writer to be how well they work within an established fictional history of a fictional universe they're getting to play in.
We've debated this accursed movie to death. Do we really need to retread the same arguments over and over? I get that you love it. I absolutely hate it. We will never see eye to eye on it and I'm ok with that. Let's move on shall we?
