I always thought that Yoda and Palpatine should never have used a lightsaber and instead have a duel that was entirely them kicking the beejebus out of each other using only the Force?
It'd have been a nice a call back to how we never saw them use any lightsabers and only ever used Force powers in the original trilogy, the fact that as two of the most powerful Force-users in this verse they'd really not need to use one anyway to completely own anyone and fit with that speech that Yoda gave in Empire about how the best ally for a Jedi is the Force?
Plus if they wanted to go for the entire "Democracy is dead" theme that RotS was going for, what better way to show that than to have their duel in the Senate actually destroy the building itself as a result of how pitched their battle gets? How awesome of a battle would it have been to see the building explode and Yoda and Palpatine in the middle of it, with the debris floating around them, lobbing the rubble at each other or using it to deflect and/or shield themselves from the other's attacks?
And as a warm up to that fight, in AotC, that scene with Dooku could have started the same way, with him taunting his former mentor about how strong he's gotten, only for Yoda to non-chalantly create a Force-shockwave that cracks pretty much all the plaster in the room... leading to Dooku fleeing because even he's not stupid enough to see that Yoda would mop the floor with him.
Star Wars needs to show the Force being used more in combat, otherwise, what's the point of having telekinetic powers if the Jedi or Sith never really use them and instead constantly rely on the lightsabers on their belt to solve everything? No wonder why in our dearly-departed EU, the early Sith and Jedi are mentioned as having been way stronger, it was because the early lightsabers sucked and so they weren't using them as a crutch all the time?!
