I disagree 100%. In fact, if you showed this to somebody who had no idea what an AI line even is, like a mother, they should be none the wiser unless they happen to be an audio engineer. I am almost certain you pointed them out to her as they happened, which obviously isn’t fair. My dad couldn’t even tell Tarkin was CGI in Rogue One until I told him after the movie. And for me, somebody who is very attuned to these things, when I watch this edit on a TV speaker instead of headphones, the lines blend in perfectly. There are indeed a couple of lines in v4 of this edit that are outdated (using an older method of voice synthesis which isn’t realistic) so that could be part of your issue. The new method sounds 99% like the person. To the point where I’m not sure why Hal applied certain transitional audio effects to them, as I think this made them stand out slightly more with headphones. The voice clones already try to replicate the EQ and background noise of what you give it.

I think that pruning and trimming is actually the laziest possible approach you can take in fan editing. It requires no creativity and little thought process. It’s a “hurr-durr, I don’t like this moment, so I want it gone.” Granted, it is certainly a necessary evil in a lot of cases to achieve a larger goal. If AI lines aren’t for you, that’s fine, but don’t try to turn this into a universal fact, because it certainly isn’t. Especially in a sandbox as barebones as the one TROS gives us, your ideology just doesn’t work. Not unless you condense everything into a duology. But that’s a whole different project than this one’s stated goals.