I haven’t seen it yet. Just reminded of how Lucas has said some of his colleagues thought the first quarter of Star Wars was too Sci-Fi weird, (like THX 1138 was) and needed more human stuff to balance it out. Hence the Luke and Biggs scenes, which all got cut anyway. 😉
Well, most people haven’t seen it yet. 😉
I’d say it’s just shifting a lot between different planets and different characters, all of whom are completely unfamiliar to the audience. That’s very different from how every other Star Wars movie started, aside from ANH and TFA, I guess.