The limitation on Jedi does make sense. Though... after rewatching the first film again, it actually kind of felt a bit like the Jedi were sort of dying out before Vader started on hunting them down. It's just a bit about how Obi Wan says he thought he could train Anakin as well as Yoda trained him, like, that was never the intended way or Obi Wan was massively unprepared for training anyone and that's part of what went wrong with everything - if he'd sent Anakin to Yoda it might have avoided everything.

Yeah, really not sure on the old guy - he had a name and everything but no one seems to have heard of him before - and if his role was the same as Obi Wan's... yeah that doesn't seem to fit either.

The timeline sounds very plausible! Hopefully something will specify that at some point... I am also fond of Kylo Ren being a subversion! So I would hope they do avoid weakening that...

Hehe - yeah, the wait for the next film is going to be quite arduous!