Well here’s Tony Gilroy addressing it directly to guide your decision:
“In canon, she’s rescued by the Gold Squadron and the speech that they gave in the cartoon, which was a canonical show, is on that ship. And we were like, ‘Do I have to stick to this f—ing speech?’ In a really sneaky way, we’re minimizing what they did in Star Wars Rebels, but we’re keeping it consistent. We’re just saying you don’t really know the whole story of what happened.”