So ANH and TFA both start off in space, then they cut to our hero, then our earlier introduced characters end up meeting and needing them. So in order to make TPM mirror ANH more, wouldn’t it be better to introduce Anakin before the other characters meet him?
Which version of ANH are you watching? The lost cut? Did you find it? We meet Luke when the sand crawler shows up at the homestead. I was semi-surprised when TFA didn’t follow this model and instead went with the way ANH originally went (and the way it is in the adaptations).
Hal’s TPM edit is probably the closest you can get to ANH, with the amount of time it takes to get to Anakin only a couple minutes or so more than it takes to get to Luke.