Instead of this word salad, it could just as easily be reduced to "she was turning into a smoke monster and was turning you into smoke as well, you would literally be dead if I didn't kill her".

Sol did literally nothing wrong.

If they wanted that they need to actually put the effort in to write the story in a way that leads to that conclusion

The acolyte shows the Jedi to always be in the right and yet are branded as the bad guys because one of their order killed someone after they attacked them it ludicrous