I think the strange thing about it is.

They played the film loose and had multiple choices of how it was going to play out and with various plot points. But come the final assembly even though they had all these multiple events readings and choices they still had to do more re-shoots on top of what they had and alter it quite significantly.

Kathleen Kennedy talked about Saw’s character stating “We really wanted to include his character more, but we have more plan’s for him in the future” I don’t understand what stopped them? if they wanted to do that why could they not do that? Unless it was him having his leg chopped off? and it would push it in to the realm of the R Rated.

There has to be a good reason for the re-shoots, but I am actually failing to see any glaringly significant reason (Apart from Jyn “I Rebel”), and that is the strangest part about it all.

3 hours Assembly cut >>>> 2 hours 20 minutes directors cut. (Not including Re-shoots) >>> 2 hours 13 minutes Final Cut including re-shoots

Change for the sake of Change. Too Many cooks?

Perhaps Gareth Edwards wanted a Opening Crawl so bad he had to be refused Final cut? Even though he was still consulted and it seems everyone is very happy with Gareth Edwards regardless.