Here’s a very ROUGH AND GLITCHY example of that idea, to give a feel for how the intro would feel if it played out that way.
I don’t know. For me, it suffers from, uh, every single image having so many things going on. At only 5 minutes, we’re constantly going back and forth between the invasion of Naboo, the Neimoidians, and the jedi, which makes this opening even more complicated than the original. For all of its flaws, at least the original opening placed most of its focus on Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, so it wasn’t too hard to follow (You could argue that this was done for eye candy, but the point remains).
I’m not sure if it’s doable, but I think the best way to fix this issue would be to make this opening longer or slower paced. This way, we can catch up with it a little more easily. Is there an extra scene or two that can be added in to slow things down?