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IIRC splitting up the fleet was the original plan. They were going to sacrifice the big ships as bait while the transports took the crew down to a planet cloaked. Except Holdo was an absolute idiot and neglected to share any of this with her command staff so nobody had any idea what was going on, or that she even had a plan, so they mutinied, tried to find their own solution, and ended up wrecking the whole thing even further.
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Ugh, that was so stupid and annoying. Even if you come at it from the hierarchy angle and say that Holdo didn't owe Poe any explanation (a defense I've seen people give back then), it would have been extremely easy and also sensible (since morale is, y'know, a thing, and so is mutiny) for Holdo to just say she had a plan and knew what she was doing, and to trust the plan. Hell, Poe even pleads with her to tell him she had some sort of plan, and she chooses not to for no reason other than being insufferable, and most importantly, creating unnecessary conflict out of nowhere for the sake of movie drama.