No one mentioning removing the mind reading monster with questionably CGI tentacles? That’d be one of my only cuts, unless someone can convince me to replace the entire prologue and first few scenes with a crawl.
In one of the trailers there was a scene where Jyn meets K2-SO and the droid says “The Captain say’s you are a friend, I will not Kill you.”
So it would appear that Cassian first met Jyn on Jedha in the original version. Most of the changes evolved around Bodhi Rook character being further developed as the messenger.
If you also remember Mon Mothma stating “we have intercepted a coded imperial transmission” so that would in effect render Bodhi’s role useless in the opening of the film and sans tenticle mind probe.
Basically most of the changes evolved around Bodhi Rook although this caused Saw Gerrera and his partisans to be diminished also no doubt.
This went on Further in the final act where he was the missing link to getting the link established with the fleet rather than running with the plans to the dish.
So Blame Bodhi Rook!!!
She evidently get’s hurt also explaining the limp on that run to the radar tower and change of clothes?