The movie also doesn't show Lando flying inside Executor and firing missles in the docking bay. Something that was only brought up later.
Yeah the Empire had bad engineers. Palatine repeatedly executed the designer of the Death Star! Fear probably doesn't inspire the best design decisions. I believe Bevel Lemelisk was revived/cloned 6 or 7 times by the Emperor to continue designing the second Death Star.
Also, an invincible bad guy is certainly not good for Hollywood storytelling. The books had more leeway to make things more "normal" I guess you could say.
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