Wouldn’t say it is negative, but I get what you’re saying. And you would basically be trading one pay off for another. A part of me wishes the Force ghosts played a bigger role in the end than they do.
It is just too bad there isn’t any pay off to the Force sensitive Finn stuff. If you cut out those references, and Poe being a spice runner (can’t recall if Dom is doing this), it ends up cutting quite a bit of Finn, Poe and Rey’s interactions.