I’m not sure how successful these goals would be, but my preliminary fan editing guidelines for this one will be:

As usual, refrain from radically altering the source unless compelled and the stars align.

Trim away SNL humor. (For example, it’s fine for Poe to ‘tool with’ Hux, but Hux shouldn’t place himself in on the joke. So, perhaps counterintuitively, I’d leave in the “about his mother” line, but remove “Can he hear me? He can?”)

Trim ‘Droids’ humor, like BB8 taking out an armed guard by throwing change at him and driving a (tiny?) AT-ST.

Cut down on the fake-outs and misdirection. Most of the specific examples of this are okay on their own, but the sum is a movie that makes me feel like a monkey. Remove those that can safely be, even if they’re okay. (For example, I might even remove the laundry room moment even though I like it because doing so would somewhat detract from this negative aspect. Also, if I knew for a fact that Ep9 would not make use of the Jedi texts, remove their shot from the end of the movie and let the Yoda scene end up with a discernible meaning.)

Remove some of the jerks. This movie feels like it is playing tug-of-war with itself. (For example, as Luke and Yoda talk, trim Luke getting defensive about the texts he was just about to burn before Yoda did.)