Idk why you guys think the final battle is so complicated. While yes there are four different storylines, they all basically amount to “everyone fights the droids while infiltrating the palace and hoping the air force can take out the control ship to make the infiltration trivial easy”. Ultimately the battle hinges on Padme’s party and the pilots, with the Gungans and the Jedi going off on tangents only to give her party a chance. Plus plenty of SW films have done intercut battles. Remember Exegol, Endor, and Starkiller Base? It’s really just a function of wanting the climax to include a ground battle, air battle, and lightsaber battle.

Oh and while the execution is seamless, I don’t like the idea of Jar Jar being a planetary representative from the start. It robs him of his entire arc from lowly buffoon to much more important buffoon and redemption in the eyes of his people. If being a buffoon is the issue, this doesn’t fix it, it just makes him a bumbling authority figure like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.

Fwiw, if you guys really wanna simplify things, you could try moving the Gungan Battle to the start of the film, with Jar Jar being one of the only survivor of a Gungan massacre when he meets Qui-Gon. That said, the scene no longer serves any real narrative purpose without the greater context of being a distraction so the Naboo can infiltrate Theed.

But hey, that’s just my two cents.