The Importance of Hyperspace

Ships blow up all the time in this universe and like hey here's a great way that you can show that the first order is really terrible. Have them using suicide pilots driving hyper drive ships as attacks. Just done a few of their ships into the first Death Star it would have been all over. To be honest I didn't think of it grey, I just thought that's awesome but within five seconds I was like oh no stop brain stop brain"