I think you’ll just have to decide for yourself what scenes are really worth it, a reason I would give to cut out subplots completely rather than trim like Ben’s civil war antics for example is that by having less it ends up feeling more jarring and pointless to see it abridged. I think there’s room for little moments but they shouldn’t be so over the top while also being too short or it will just feel confusing why it was brought up in the first place only to be resolved by the next scene.