I just hate narrative changes that rely entirely on subtext like this. It’s obvious that if the films were being made from scratch with this intention, there’d be some reference in the film itself to Obi-Wan teaching classes of younglings either in dialogue or on screen. It feels too much like a “hack” and only holds together if you force the interpretation through opening crawl text, which feels inelegant.

Also, is the audience expected to believe that Anakin went out like a punk to a youngling when he’s supposedly a hero of the clone war and one of the greatest warriors in the Galaxy? I don’t know how I feel about that…