I don’t know if I’ve talked about this before and if I have it’s been a long time, but having two Saga films take place back to back just kinda irks on an irrational level. Thus, I’d like to edit the films so as to insert a 1 year gap. Rey and Chewie spend the year scouring Ach-To for Luke’s location, and since in my version there never was a big laser pointed at D’Qar, it’s reasonable to think the First Order would take a year to find it. This change wouldn’t accomplish much, but it would feel more in keeping with the Saga’s style. Then again, so would changing the title and that’s off-limits for iconography reason.
I think an easier way to do this would be to adjust the ending of TFA. The cliffhanger with Luke is what necessitates the back-to-back nature of them. I know we’ve talked about how I overcame this before, but if you take everything out of TFA from after the Falcon jumps to Hyperspace from D’Qar, you can re-use that footage in TLJ when part of it is reenacted anyway. I used Kylo travelling to Exegol as a new cliffhanger, but you could just end it with the jump. Then it becomes ambiguous how much time transpires between the films, as TLJ still doesn’t open with Rey on Ahch-To.