It’s a nice try but it fails for several reasons it is never even broached in the film, Holdo has no reason to suspect any such reaction would occur, and General Hux and his other officers all react as if they know what is about to occur.
The film’s novelization tries to put a band-aid on the issue by claiming that the Raddus had experimental shields that created a new and unique reaction that nobody expected. The scenario as presented in the film treats it as a simple jump, with no special circumstances surrounding it to introduce or explain this new level of destruction. It breaks that suspension of disbelief and might be the only time in the theater that I’ve said to myself, “That’s not how it works.” The damage it causes is so powerful, and the way it is presented is so mundane, that there is no way that this technology would not have been studied and weaponized in the past, especially by evil forces with unlimited resources. I generally dislike the idea of turning Hyperspace into a direct weapon, and vehemently disagree with the way it was done in the 8th Star Wars film with the Raddus jump. You always have the capability of introducing something new, but one must be careful when they do to introduce it in a way that feels new and plausible, and in a way that doesn’t damage the integrity of the concept both in the past and moving forward. That suspension can only go so far though, which goes for any concept in this universe. We allow different aspects to be introduced without there being an issue, such as Gravity Well Generators or Hyperspace Tracking. So, we suspend our disbelief, allowing starships to slip into another dimension, appearing across the galaxy in weeks, days, or even hours. Now obviously Star Wars is not real life, you won’t reasonably expect everything about Hyperdrives to be as mundane or as logical as real-life space travel, nor would you want it to be completely boring or static. It’s the equivalent of a functional engine in real life.
It’s the primary method of travel across the universe, simple and small enough to fit onto starfighters, and mundane enough to be found at junk dealer shops in planets at the ass end of space like Tatooine. A lot relies on it remaining as consistent, or at least as uncontradicted, as possible. Hyperspace is a fundamental aspect of the Star Wars Universe.
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