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Things that seem to me like plotholes

• Why didn’t Fury and Danvers find a new homeworld for the Skrulls, in 30 years of searching? (Are there really no habitable but uninhabited planets in the entire MCU? Not even ones that are uninhabitable to most species because of radiation, which Skrulls are immune to?)
• Given that they didn’t find a new homeworld, why hasn’t Fury ever said that the search wasn’t working out, nor apologized for his failure, nor brainstormed with the Skrulls about other options? Faux-Fury gives an explanation in the final episode of Secret Invasion, but that seems to me to be a weak one: the claim there is that he gave up on the search and decided to make a home for the Skrulls on Earth, but then figured out that it would be too hard to get humans to accept Skrulls. (So, I guess, he then just gave up on the whole project, but didn’t bother to tell any Skrulls he had done so.) Given that I had already guessed that that wasn’t really Fury speaking, I assumed at the time that that wasn’t the real explanation; but maybe it was meant to be, in which case I think it was a really weak one.
• Someone in a comment somewhere raised a point that I totally agree with: There’ve been a million Skrulls on Earth for years, and not one of them has accidentally died and turned back into their original form in front of humans? That seems implausible.
• Speaking of Skrull detection: We’ve seen that removing a piece of their body causes that piece to revert. I suppose that must not be true of blood, or a blood test would be all that’s needed to detect them. But even so: surely in some circumstances, if you need to convince (say) the President of the US that someone is a Skrull, cutting off the tip of that person’s finger would be an acceptable sacrifice? That’s not the kind of test that you can do frequently, but in a specific one-off saving-the-world scenario, it seems like an easy decision to make.
• Speaking of that sort of scenario: in that final episode, Fury and Falsworth casually kill one or two dozen Secret Service agents, all of whom apparently turned out to be human. (At least I didn’t see any of them revert.) But when it comes time to save the world, instead of killing the Skrull impersonating Rhodes, they hold him at gunpoint in a tense scene of trying to convince the President with words. Why don’t they just kill Rhodes immediately?

Things that I’m honestly uncertain about

• Multiple times in this series, Fury gave the impression of being old and tired and out of resources. I felt like each time that happened, we subsequently saw indications that it had just been an act, and that he was more or less on top of things most of the time, as usual for him. Did I misinterpret that? Is the idea supposed to be that he really is old and tired and worn out?
• Apparently the ending was supposed to indicate that the person we thought was Rhodes may have been really a Skrull for years, possibly since just after Winter Soldier. How long has he been a Skrull? don’t think we have any way to know. But if it has been over the course of years and multiple movies, I find it kinda annoying—why would he have apparently done nothing to further the bad-Skrull agenda during all that time?

Things that might be answered in The Marvels or other forthcoming works

• What has Fury been doing on SABER all this time? Why has he stayed away so long? And why hasn’t he been able to (for example) make a phone call to Varra? (Also, where is SABER? I had assumed it was in Earth orbit, but various things might make a lot more sense if it’s elsewhere.)
• There were a couple of times when Gravik (and maybe others, I forget) said to Fury something like “Are you going to suddenly have the Avengers show up and save you?” I assume that was the writers lampshading the standard connected-superhero-universe question: where are all the other heroes while this is going on? But in this case, I don’t buy the standard answers. The Skrulls are about to start WWIII and kill all of humanity, and Fury doesn’t even try to contact any superheroes to help out, just proceeds as if he’s entirely on his own, with like three allies? But I can imagine that The Marvels might show us something extremely important that’s keeping all of the remaining major heroes busy during this time period.
• What was going on in that final Falsworth/G'iah scene, with the vast array of (apparently) bodies in some sort of storage? Were those all humans who’ve been replaced by Skrulls? Were they Skrulls? Were they some other species entirely?
• What is Varra’s work that’s so important for her to do on Earth? Isn’t she a geneticist or something? If her work is that important, why didn’t we see her doing that work during this series?

Things that I’m just annoyed by, and am thus asking rhetorical questions about

• Did they really have to kill Maria Hill? In the first episode? After all these years of her being annoyingly underused? At first I interpreted it as fridging, as killing her to give Fury a reason to get revenge, but later it became clear that it wasn’t even that—it was a way to frame Fury. Surely there were other ways they could have done that. (…Of course, it was also a way to keep Hill out of the show, so that Fury would have one less loyal ally—but given that they just kept the whole rest of the MCU offscreen with no explanation, surely they could have done that with her too.) See also [SPOILER] Deserved Better in ‘Secret Invasion’.