The SW logo has almost the exact same motion as in TFA. I chose to not match the prequels in that regard as I’m personally a fan of having the logo readable from the start. Your brain can recognize it from the first frame instead of just seeing the middle part first. It’s just a few frames, not a big thing, but that’s what I think.
It’s impressive that you noticed it. I’m not really a crawl expert outside of the things I’ve learned while doing this so I didn’t know about most of these slight differences between each episode’s crawl.
No need for a medal though! Chewie didn’t get one. The droids didn’t get any. Leia deserved one too, of course. Not saying I’ve been snubbed, I’m just saying. 😉
While we’re adding necklaces we should add those ANH medals in later movies as well…