Vader’s reference to Obi-Wan in ep6: where he says to Luke “Obi-Wan once thought as you do”, as in ep3 Padme tries to turn Anakin back from the dark side. Could simply cut the line?
The popular approach is changing it to "Padme once thought as you do.
The rebels didn’t accomplish anything (fix: merge the resistance and new republic… leia is commanding a regiment in the outer rim)
My preference is making the conflict of the ST a proxy war with two groups within the Senate funding the Resistance and the First Order.
Come to think of it, I wonder if something about it could come up in Canto Bight…