I said this before, but I really dislike the idea of removing anything else from the movie at this point. Much more interested in additions/changes.
Didn’t Hal say that V2 is going to be the last version with major changes? If so, I think it’s fair to bandy about other ways to make the story flow better, even if that’s at the cost of removing a few more words here and there. (I don’t get why “changes” are good, but “removals” - a type of change - are bad…? Isn’t that all subjective?)
That said, I do agree that we’re missing the forest for the trees, as was said above. We really can’t keep battling for days on end about every tiny minutia. It’s exhausting.