re: your tag essay: YES. It’s so annoying because the Jedi/force users basically have a plot breaking mary-sue power, and instead of like, retconning limitations (idk, fluctuating levels of Force, daily limits on Force without hurting yourself, having to draw the Force from beings around you) the writers just... forget(?) that force users can use the force half the time. Half the CW episodes they’re like “we can’t do X thing!” like yes you can. You can literally do almost anything. GAHHH
YES EXACTLY AUUGH it's like, sometimes Jedi are powerful enough to rend metal and throw people around and read minute changes in people's mood, and sometimes they take TEN SECONDS to MOVE A CHAIR from ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM TO THE OTHER. And like you said there's absolutely so many ways they could have resolved this!! Many of which would make the world stronger because it would be some kind of concrete truth to lean on!!
Like obi wan can scronch those two commando droids like it's nothing, but later on ahsoka takes like forty five seconds to suspend and sloooooooowly inch Steela back to safety, which - spoilers- conveniently gives the droid enough time to shoot at her and break her focus. If obi wan scronching the droids would have actually resolved a plot point instead of just looking cool, I guarantee it would have been a minute long affair.
Literally ANY hand wavey excuse could have at least made it less glaring, and you could argue that obi wan is way more powerful than ahsoka, but we've seen living people get tossed around by every level of force user and they don't seem to struggle with it much.
Anyway I have more Star Wars Thoughts but they all boil down to this
