One more idea for the pile:

After the Praetorean guard fight, move up Holdo’s sacrifice so that the collision happens as Rey moves to take Kylo’s hand and presumably join him. There is no scuffle over the lightsaber, and it doesn’t split in half (this would mean removing the broken lightsaber shot from the end of the movie as well, dependent on Ep 9’s treatment of the subject).

After the collision and Finn/Rose escaping the wreckage with their deleted scene of going where they belong, then cut to Luke and Yoda. Their conversation happens in the shadow of Rey’s decision to presumably join Kylo and destroy everything, and the scenes together much more strongly imply a new direction for the trilogy. Then when Luke arrives to face Kylo and defeat him through his trickery, it is implied that he is more clearly fighting for Rey than before.

Another edit I’d like to try is to cut Finn and Rose arriving at the base. Cut from the foxes racing through the closing door to the Resistance fighters setting up their CRT screens.