Another thought following from StarkillerAG’s ideas:

In the invasion scenario, you may want to drop the blockade angle entirely. The blockade has disappeared by the return to Naboo in the finale anyway, replaced with a single droid control ship, as I’ve mentioned before. But having no blockade would also help explain their ship successfully arriving at the surface, albeit deliberately avoiding the occupied city.

If we see a single droid control ship from the beginning (which the Jedi transport isn’t equipped to do anything about anyway), and we also properly identify it as a droid control ship up front, then we open the movie with the Death Star that must be destroyed to save the day.

Scenes of invasion (ominous threat building)
Droid control ship (tangible target)
Queen Amidala must be brought to Coruscant to convince them to help (solution)
Queen gets captured (solution in jeopardy)
The full plot plays out, with many jeopardies for the Queen: Capture and recovery, hyperdrive forcing them off path, being hunted by Maul, etc
Anakin is discovered (not yet revealed as alternative solution)
Queen arrives at Coruscant, pleas rejected (rejection of solution, low hope)
Return to Naboo and new plan (new solution)
New plan fails (lowest hope)
Anakin destroys control ship (suprise solution, victory)