The conversation between Poe and Finn on the TIE about BB-8 stays the same in this restructure, I meant that the First Order doesn’t know about the droid until Poe is recaptured after the crash. The audience gets the same information in this regard either way.

As for the Destroyer rescue, that’s difficult. It would be relatively easy to remove his cockpit shots from the Maz castle battle completely (and I’ve considered doing this independent of this idea), but the problem is that he’s clearly flying a unique X-wing so anyone paying attention would place him at the battle anyway. I could use the two shots from the trailers of the X-wing approach instead of the footage of Poe’s black X-wing in the initial assault. This way he appears partway through the battle in his personal X-wing after he has had time to be rescued from the Destroyer.

It might also give his return more power (and help elevate him to primary character status), since we’ve been able to know and follow his progress thus far.