The edit is coming together really nicely! I’m all for the level of conservatism we are going for, as it genuinely feels like a better version of what was in theaters. Too much changing and it starts to feel unofficial. I don’t think I have a ton to add that others haven’t said, but here we go.

Klaud to me is at a point where the effort put into cutting him while we still see him in the background is more distracting than his actual presence in the theatrical movie. This can be changed if his removal is really strong, but he doesn’t bother me at all and I’d probably rather see him retained.
I’m not a huge fan of the Palpatine “Find Me” with the wayfinder. It buries the lead of the reveal that is about to happen in the very next scene and lays on the device’s purpose a little too thick while the new crawl will already establish that as is.
I can take or leave the Chewie capture scene being in this cut at all. It is short and harmless but also the new placement doesn’t feel 100% right to me. Still better than the original.
I am actually fine with the camp that Leia knew, but Luke didn’t. Luke cut himself off from the war, the force, and his loved ones for long enough that I can buy him not knowing about Rey’s grandpa until he becomes one with the force after TLJ. I think making him already know hurts Luke in TLJ, but cutting everybody knowing out of TROS hurts what we have to work with for Leia. A lot of the themes that Luke and Leia discuss in this movie have to do with identity and where you come from not defining you, and cutting their knowledge altogether will cut out most of the meat of those parently conversations with Rey, domino effecting into having their ghosts appearance at the end on Tattooine be less earned.

Aside from all that banter, I love this edit! It seems like it is coming together really well, and it helps to take what we got and enhance it, rather than hacking it into an even less coherent mess. I really appreciate your work on this, Hal.