An idea I’m using for my edit that I’d be honored if you stole: Anakin using Padme as bait is his idea. Makes him more bold and calculating like Vader, and using someone to lure someone else is basically also his plan in ESB, which makes him feel even more like a younger Vader.
So I actually debated that sequence quite a bit, and I’m actually cutting the whole “using as bait” bit all together. The only reason we know there are meant to be cameras watching her is because Obi-Wan mentions it, so her being monitored by R2 can just be one of those “star wars things.”