Also, re: the ending. I don’t really see any merit in swapping the order of scenes, especially since up to this point every film has had a final scene without any (English) dialogue.
Every film has also had an ending involving the main characters 😉
Leia only has 15 seconds of screen time in Rogue One, she’s no main character.
True. And that’s why Rogue One’s ending (among other things) didn’t work at all for me.