Exactly. That’s why several of them were cut - because they no longer fit with the structure of the film as it was shaped in the edit bay.

Rian insists that the caretaker scene was cut because Luke was too much of a jerk in it, and he thought it was better to go from Luke and Rey starting to understand each other into the hand touching scene rather than them being at each other’s throats at the time, but I think the restructuring was another big reason for that scene being lost, too.