I agree with John Campea that this is a mistake by Lucasfilm if they drop the crawl. It has been apart of not just the saga films but the comic books, novels and video games. You have 2 hours to give us a new distinct type of Star Wars movie. If they really want to make the anthologies different in more important and meaningful ways then shake up the tone of the films, or take on a unique narrative style. That’s what I want from the anthologies. Not trashing an inherent part of almost all Star Wars movies (the crawl).

It won’t ruin the movie for me though in the slightest. I will get over it real quick but nevertheless (IMO) it is an unnecessary and dumb decision by Lucasfilm.