Not looking for spoilers, just strengths/weaknesses.
Trying to be as non-spoilerish as I can.
One thing I found utterly disgusting: they make a new character who is named almost identically as an old, established character was named, and coincidentally this new character was doing storywise the same thing that original character did, but obviously in a different way. This shows to me that Disney is firmly set in destroying old universe not only by overwriting story arks but also by re-using old character names to further erase them from existence, much like the old christians did with pre-christianity deities, stories and holidays. Also, I wouldn't care much if they screw some trippy yuuzhan-vongs that were dumb and contrived anyway, but to do the same with a character I loved and knew ever since 1995 - that's an utter outrage.
Another thing mildly revolting is the way they crammed in all that pompous dialogues about "hope, blahblah, duty, yadayada, reasons and decisions, blahblah some more", they're extremely cringeworthy and even more annoying as I remember how great original trilogy turned out without that sh*it at all! Can you imagine Luke disrupting pre-flight routine to stand in some dumb heroic pose and preach about "we were destined to preserve the hope that lead us all to better mankind who are destined to deserve more hope and love and friendship and fuc*king butterflies"? Utterly lame.
With that rant said, there was things I loved: space battle was pleasant, X-wings and Y-wings worked reasonably executing usual battle tactics I would have expected from them playing Tie-Fighter back in 1994, they even exploited that Star Destroyer's vulnerability exactly how I would've done it myself driving my trusty interceptor against one. Loved that. Pathetic lack of turbolasers on capital ships and inter-capital ship fire exchange was quite disappointing though.
Really loved how they tied the end of Rogue 1 to New Hope too!
All in all, there is no doubt that is not anymore original trilogy we loved, but as soon as we accept and embrace it, the new movies are rather acceptable chew for when you just want to went to the cinema to watch some random movie. Not worse than that Marvel superhero conveyor line anyway.
P.S. There's now swearing filter on this board? Did someone finally thought of the children or what?