I’m not a big enough Star Wars fan to understand exactly what the critique you alluded to is, but what I’ll bring up is this:

In A New Hope, when Leia and Vader first meet face to face on the Tantive IV right after the Empire captures the ship, she says that they’re on a diplomatic mission and Vader had no right or reason to attack them. He counters that they received a transmission from rebel spies containing the Death Star plans. Essentially, Leia’s ship was the pickup for the info, but it did have a cover story of being on a legitimate mission.

The ending of Rogue One shows Leia’s ship engaged in a giant space battle and only breaking away to flee at the last second. It doesn’t really work with the understanding of what’s happening that the characters demonstrate in the start of the other film—MAYBE Leia would be ballsy and desperate enough to try such a weird, obvious lie, but even if we accept that how come Vader doesn’t point out that he obviously followed her from the scene of a terrorist attack on an Imperial research facility? Secondarily, this sequence of events also carries the implication that they somehow jumped to hyperspace to get to Tattooine, exited hyperspace for unclear reasons, and that Vader’s ship made the same jump to catch them there. I’m willing to say that maybe that makes sense with the way the galactic map is laid out and how technology works, and I just don’t know it, but it doesn’t seem right. Amusingly, the implications of that would be yet another issue for TLJ’s consistency, where they make the reveal of previously impossible hyperspace tracking into the basis for the entire plot. Looks like Vader already tracked people through hyperspace decades ago!