I really think we should be going strong, not subtle. The Palpatine revelation is not subtle at all, to the extent that it’s jarring. And we have to be creating these edits for the imaginary audience who have never seen these films before and are watching them for the first time in chronological order. Having a nice, obvious, ‘something force-y happened when Snoke died’, makes it very clear to the audience that something’s still up. Similarly, the subtlety only serves people like us, who can now watch those scenes with a little less cringe, mentally nodding satisfied as we encounter the sticking plaster instead of the cut. But for me (and I appreciate this is subjective), we’re creating alternative versions as if they’re the ones that aired in the cinema, for the first-time viewer. We need to be sure these changes are noticed, not just things we can comfortably know are there.