I agree that episodes 3 and 7 should’ve been combined into one penultimate episode. I also agree that episodes 4-5 should’ve been combined. In fact, one of the writers admitted on X that 4-5 were indeed one episode at first, and Disney made them split it up.

This whole thing also probably coulda just worked as a movie, actually. Same goes for the Kenobi show, and maybe also Ahsoka (since they’re starting to turn all the mandoverse stuff into movies anyways. Alternatively, Ahsoka could’ve also been an episode or two shorter.