Lest we forget, the concept art for TFA was far more interesting than what we got, so it’s really difficult to even speculate on the look of the final result.
The TFA art is illuminating as well, because you have, for instance, let’s say five or so distinct concepts for what kind of planet Jakku might be. So even if the film did completely follow through with a cool piece of art it necessarily will not be able to satisfy every concept.
Yeah, but the concepts we’ve seen so far look pretty faithful to Trevorrow’s script. Remember that the art of TLJ was almost exactly like the theatrical movie, and no matter what your opinions on that movie are you have to agree it looks awesome. And I don’t just like the script because of the cool visuals, I like it because of the characters and the plot too. The plot of TROS is a hot mess, and no amount of editing would be able to fix it in my opinion. So I think this version of IX would be much better than the theatrical version.
It’s faithful to a version of Trevorrow’s script. Keep in mind this version is from 12/16, and there very likely would have been many changes from then to 12/19 - not just in the script phase, but in the production and post-production phases as well. TLJ was pretty much fully formed from the initial drafts, but DOTF would have likely gone through many revisions when you consider they were unhappy enough with it to fire Trevorrow outright.