I was sorta struggling with where the show fit in the SW timeline before, and after Ch 16 everything I'd pieced together goes in the garbage.
Could have sworn they were talking about the first order in season one (and maybe they were, but I was working on the assumption that Moff Gideon had sprung up after the fall of the New Order. But then Thrawn was mentioned, then Skywalker..
15 year old me would be so disappointed in today-me