Agreed. Pointless and distracting.
In the behind the scenes talk, the original creators of that game talked about how they recreated it in stop-motion as if it was a continuation of the board state from ANH. And it’s charming and fun for the creators I’m sure, but after learning that I actually like the scene even less since it presumes that nobody ever played another game on that board for thirty-five years and that’s just incredibly depressing.