I will say that it’s worth seeing TFA: Starlight, if you haven’t. It makes the movie feel like a dark inverse of ANH instead of a direct ripoff, which is at least more clever. I feel it also foreshadows TROS better.
There aren’t necessarily many edits of TLJ on this forum that I’d think are strictly preferable to the original. There are some real improvements, sure, but if you didn’t like the original movie it isn’t going to salvage it. That is, unless you enjoy the Caretaker Village sequence explaining Luke’s philosophy. Watch that on YouTube, if you haven’t.
Thanks for that, I’d never heard of that deleted scene. The more I Watch TLJ the more I enjoy it, apart from the Canto Bight sequences.