Quote Originally Posted by Coatl View Post

No matter who is Holdo, if Ackbar is there, a hero of the last war with more than 30 years of experience and the knowledge and trust of the fleet, he should be put in charge, also if this was going to be his final scene after all those years, he should have be gone as a pro not as collateral damage. Holdo commits several mistakes that can be excused as a lack of experience dealing with insubordination, and being put in charge just because they are in an emergency, but again this excuse loss credibility since Ackbar was there with all his years of experience and never was even consulted not mentioned. As result people gets enraged for the meaningless death of Akbar and how he was skipped in the chain of command and feels nothing about what was supposed to be an heroic sacrifice.
That's kind of what they did with the Legends New Jedi Order books, bringing him back and making him fleet commander again, although he's old and frail, (and dies shortly thereafter of natural causes). TFA and TLJ do show him to be pretty much the same way he was in ROTJ, on the other hand. Guess they stuck with the Star Wars films trope that non-humans seem to not age that fast (Yoda, Maz, Chewie etc).