Do you do anything about the Luke-Leia kiss in ESB? ESB is my favorite movie of all-time and I don’t hold it against the film because of a retcon, but that hasn’t aged well.
The short answer is that I cut that scene entirely.
The long answer is that I retooled Han, Luke, and Leia’s characters across the OT so that they’re now more consistent, which led me to also cut the scene in the Slug-Cave where Han and Leia snog (Han is a still a smart-@$$ in my cut, but no longer an immature creep). By doing that, the scene where Leia kisses Han on the cheek when Han successfully evades the Imperial Fleet is now the first kiss. Basically, if you move the Han and Leia romance to the subtext of Episode V, the “I love you” / “I know” exchange will then land with the same impact as the “I am your Father” line a few scenes away. After that all you have to do, is delete any references to a love triangle in Return of the Jedi, and you have a convincing love story.
The basic logic I went with is that Han likes Leia, because she’s trustworthy (he’s used to dealing with untrustworthy scum from the underworld) but not a pushover (It doesn’t hurt that she’s also pretty, lol). And Leia likes Han because he treats her like everyone else (he doesn’t suck up to her, because she’s a princess), and He’s the one who comes back for her (She can now trust him to act selflessly towards her). If you pay attention to the evacuation of Echo Base, Leia is the only member of the command staff that stays behind to organize the final defense, and Han is the only one who comes back for her. It’s also Han’s skills that allow them to evade the Empire over the next several scenes (Finally Leia can depend on someone else for the answers rather than being responsible for everything). All I did was follow that logic across the full sweep of Empire and recut it as a “Medieval Romance” not a bunch of disconnected romantic happenings. If you do that, you’d be shocked how much more believable/satisfying the “I Love You” / “I know” scene becomes.