I didn’t mean to imply that every scene of the Falcon is there purely because of nostalgia, just that its initial inclusion was very much for that purpose (and to get Han on board). But once the Falcon is now the ST ship of choice, there’s really no way to change its identity.
Listing all the scenes which rely on it being Han’s old ship:
-Han and Chewie finding and boarding the Falcon
-Han complaining about the compressor, and Rey’s solution
-The Tracking Ball reference and Game table
-Han thinking about hiring Rey to look after the Falcon-Luke mourning Han’s death and the metal dice
-The Falcon drawing TIEs away at Crait (Requires Kylo’s hatred of Han and the Falcon)
I get what what your saying but I think we are both looking at this from a different point of view. Not to speak for you, but I am assuming that you are looking at this from the viewpoint of the films as is with minimal/no editing. I’m looking at it from my own personal heavily edited version of TFA (which a few of those points are cut) but mainly from my in-progress “sequel trilogy redux” project. While TLJ isn’t out yet on BR/DVD, as long as my plans work out and don’t get changed, the only point there that’s going to be included is the game table reference (and a slight possibility of drawing the TIEs away). Nether of them are even necessary, at least not for my version. Ive only seen the TFA once in cinema and a quick glimpse on cut scenes when editing so I actually completely forgot that two of those points even existed.