To be honest, I love the idea of two movies. JJ is probably regretting his backing out of 8, and two movies would give him a chance to have his “trilogy”. This would ALSO give our film editors more material to make a definitive 3 movie Trilogy 😃
Merge Episodes 7,8 eliminating the Episode 7 remake of 4, and eliminate the boring stuff in episode 8. They already merge together perfectly when we meet Luke on the island. My 2 cents.
I mean, it might be best case scenario for us as a fan editing community, but I think it would lose a lot of goodwill with general audiences. It would certainly turn me off of new SW material more than anything else Disney has done up to this point.