Yep. I kinda fall on both sides of this argument. I personally love Rogue One and don’t think it directly contradicts or detrimentally (keyword!) retcons anything from the OT. But it’s also not the cleanest/neatest way they could’ve handled bringing the dialogue to life and connecting the two films (R1 and ANH).

And, heck, the whole ending of R1 is quite convoluted. They close the shield gate which traps our heroes. So our heroes decide to transmit the plans instead, knowing they can’t escape the planet. But to transmit the plans they have to blow a hole in the shield gate, i.e. The very thing trapping them on the surface and forcing them to transmit (rather than carry) the plans… it really doesn’t make any sense. I can kinda rationalize it by thinking “well, they know they can’t get out and even blowing a hole in the gate would be a really dicey chance of getting off planet. But at least they can send the plans through the hole first to ensure they get out and then our heroes can make their best effort to escape once they know the plans made it.” But ultimately it’s rather sloppy writing. But I still love the movie!