I think that’s part of why Phasma in TLJ contributes to the movie being overstuffed. In real life, Johnson inherited this character and there was a need to include her in some way. She was in the trailer and all that. It so happens that, going by the movies and nothing else, Phasma is back from the dead only to die again real quick.
In a fan edit, trailers and real life studio concerns be damned. Phasma could easily be a TFA-only character, whose sense of meaning with Finn was already resolved by Finn being “in charge” and executing her along with most of the personelle on SKB.

Good point about the 4K version being a source for cropped shots. Hopefully… someone could rip it for those particular shots later on.

I’d love to remove Phasma outright, which I think would help this movie in a vacuum removed from the real world concerns around it, and other editors may want to as well. It’ll depend on whether someone can make it work, or if cropping is enough.