Maybe, but I’d just delete it altogether.
His second major objection was the pacing. It’s a very relentless film, really quite overwhelmingly fast throughout. He really liked how we’d given moments more time to breathe, especially Chewie’s ‘death’, C-3PO’s ‘irreversible’ memory wipe, and Hux’s betrayal. He liked the Mustafar minute. He had nothing negative to say about the mention of ‘lightspeed skipping’ - it didn’t really register as a noteworthy thing to him, which I think is a good sign. (Note: You could maybe drop the dialogue here, or go with something even softer than ‘ramming’ - though didn’t you intend to cut the word ‘ramming’ in for v4? It’s still ‘skipping’ in this version.) But he did dislike how fast that early scene with the Rebels getting the transmission went - “like being on a Star Wars rollercoaster”. There were many other quick cuts and quick scenes too. I wonder if we could improve the pacing any further - my immediate feeling is that more re-establishing shots would go a long way.
This part got me thinking about that early transmission scene and how it could work better, and I thought, why not reincorporate some version of the chess introduction? There were some shots left on the cutting room floor when Ascendant put the scene at the end of the film, so what if we just make that scene into a little Chewie-Poe-Finn subplot?
Here’s a quick mockup of the idea: https://mega.nz/file/WYlgQYTR#KycySILs6E4dRdoSSiQyLNPd4JIIoCDtwBc_8-3U-5A
By muting Finn’s cheating accusation in the first scene, we can just establish that they are losing to Chewie and don’t know why. Either the mouth movements can be edited out or new dialogue could be generated, like ‘He was stalling.’ ‘Definitely’.
In the final scene we get the accusation, and by keeping most of the ‘just kidding’ shot, it keeps the tone jovial instead of antagonistic as we wrap up the film.