TBH I think Abrams is talented, it's just the flaws in his general style have become so apparent due to how influential he is within the industry. IIRC Tom Cruise hired him to direct Mission: Impossible III because he was impressed with the action in Alias, and then everything just ballooned from there. Not helped by Abrams having directed a grand total of one film not part of a franchise and even that was basically a proto-Stranger Things. Also huh Abrams sure likes his action heroines, can't say I'm complaining though. And not just for that.
In hindsight I feel like Star Trek Into Darkness was the point where Abrams started to get significant backlash due to perceptions the film was a pale imitation of Wrath of Khan (personally I haven't seen any Abrams Trek fully since 2010). This board seems to have even fewer devoted Trek fans than Wars though so that probably passed this board by though. One YouTuber whose channel specializes in movie countdowns placed both Into Darkness and Super 8 lower than Rise of Skywalker when he ranked all Abrams movies. And on a side note, has he seriously only actually directed six films? I guess he's busy being a producer.