Now! Now! You are being too logical, and looking at things in a rational way.
There are too many people on this forum who won't want to hear that, they want to blame any decision on the controversy, so they can thow around their
"I hate Disney" rhetoric.
It's not simply that. I mean, people were also jumping to conclusions about Jonathan Major's film being pulled because of his upcoming trial (not so much here, but elsewhere).
I think folks are prone to thinking that the most obvious reason for a film being pulled is something other than "pure financial considerations," when it's almost always purely about the $$$.
I don't think studios really care that much about controversies among fans in most cases, especially among hardcore fans. They might change some stuff at the margins, but that's about it. They don't really care whether people
like a movie or
talk badly about the movie in and of itself. They care about
whether the movie will make money and they know from past experience that people can hate on a film and still go pay to see it.
Like, I don't Colin Trevorrow was fired from TROS because of backlash about TLJ. I think he was fired because they wanted someone to do exactly what JJ did: deliver a film that was, for the most part, just a pretty safe, pretty tame retread of ROTJ that they figured audiences would go for, which would track perfectly with how JJ had handled TFA. And I think that, after they revisited the film, they figured "Wait, this isn't really that after all," and Trevorrow wouldn't change it for them to be what JJ ultimately turned in (which is ultimately what they wanted).
But it wasn't a "reaction against TLJ" per se. It's more "We want this film to be this way, and this guy isn't willing to do that, so we got back the guy who did it before." And that's it. And they wanted
that, because they always figured that approach would make the most money worldwide.