Hal’s TLJ is for people like me who thought it was an impeccable film with just a handful of niggles. It makes some very smart little cuts just to shorten some of the more immersion-breaking humour (while keeping the film funny), and its main cut is the Fathier chase and other elements on the casino planet (the Finn story, as you mentioned). Well worth your time.
Yeah, it seems like TLJ edits are either a light touch like Hal’s, or go way overboard (like killing Leia midway through, for instance). I’m waiting for a middle ground type edit, assuming I don’t do my own - poppasketti’s Rekindled seems most in line with what I want (especially his “major” changes), and darthrush’s looks promising for me, too.