My big question is this: Considering the plotting, the way the plotting works, and the way the movie ends up working out - instead of trying to fix the bad mishmash of CGI/AI elements used to digitally resurrect Ian Holm (for basically zero reason), is there a way to simply eliminate the character entirely?
I figured I might as well see if I could answer this question myself, and it turns out the answer was, so far as I could tell… yes! You can!