R1 for me actually feels by far the most what a modernised and newer Star Wars film should look and feel like. Just add the crawl back in and fix a few things such as the scene transitions and removing the location cards and you’d be pretty much there for a perfect modern take on Star Wars post OT which isn’t that far removed from it visually.

I think the ST fully directed by Gareth Edwards with the overarching story written by one person with a number of contributing writers helping to review, sanity check and flesh out the individual scripts for each ST movie could have made for a far more compelling Star Wars experience and continuation of the OT we all love.