Continued from the ANHR thread
A: R2 and 3PO never get that amount of time to themselves anywhere else in the saga, they shouldn't be as important as Luke and Biggs. We can assume they got stranded on what we can clearly see is a "desolate place" and somehow ended up in a garbage dump. We don't really need to see it all play out.
B: The Anchorhead scenes add, character development, something that Star Wars is sorely lacking it in that Empire has in droves.
However, I am suggesting this as an alternate cut, not as necessarily "Better" than the original.